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You might have heard us say it before but downtime really does happen to any website, anywhere. Website downtime essentially doesn’t discriminate; it doesn’t matter if you’re a huge multi-billion dollar company or if you’re a start-up finding your feet in the online world. Downtime happens to the best of us.
So to really drive this point home, we’ve put together the websites that have suffered downtime this June and how they dealt with the issue.
Facebook Messenger
Unfortunately for Facebook, it seems to be a regular on our “website downtime” blog series. This time it was a short-lived outage that affected the messenger feature with DownDetector reporting around 2,000 users with issues at around 4pm UK time on July 5th 2022. We have no insight into what caused the issue but we must say it was dealt with quickly and efficiently which customers reacted to well.
On 14th July 2022, Twitter suffered one of its longest outages in its history with an hour-long downtime. Over 30,000 reports were issued to DownDetector as the social media giant struggled to rectify the issue promptly. The worst part? It seemed to be an international outage as opposed to a country or continent specific outage.
Twitter issued a statement saying the following:
“Some of you are having issues accessing Twitter – and we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone. Thanks for sticking with us.”
Much like Facebook, it’s not unusual for Twitter to feature on the website downtime list. There’s many reasons for this – too much pressure on the servers caused by an influx of traffic or users, for example. Hmm, if only there was a server monitoring solution they could use?
Netflix
Streaming giant Netflix suffered an outage on July 15th 2022 with DownDetector noting 4,000 reports of issues from their customers. At first, it seemed to only be a minor outage which wasn’t worldwide spread with customers based in India affected the most. But soon there was plenty of UK-based customers that seemed to be experiencing the same thing – the dreaded 500 error message.
The issue seemed to be fixed within a very short period of time with users Tweeting that they could access their accounts soon after reporting the issue.
Much like its social media friend Facebook, Instagram is a regular website on our list suffering downtime very regularly. As a prime example of this, in the month of July alone, Instagram went down twice.
On July 22nd 2022, Twitter suffered a full outage after suffering an issue with their photo app a week prior. The worst part? Their users took to social rival Twitter to complain about the issues with logging into the platform.
This seemed to be a prolonged outage for Instagram, causing a bigger ripple across its users with the hashtag #instagramdown trending.
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