{"id":5892,"date":"2015-09-02T20:53:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T03:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2015-09-02T20:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T03:53:55","slug":"facebook-servers-crash-due-to-stapleton-first-day-of-school-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5892","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Servers Crash Due to Stapleton \u201cFirst Day of School\u201d Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"first<\/a>The social networking company Facebook suffered major embarrassment due to technical difficulty last Wednesday after having servers overload, and putting the site down for just over two hours. \u201cWe had a major spike in traffic we simply weren\u2019t prepared for,\u201d said Facebook CIO Tim Campos. \u201cWe had an overload that was unexpected, and although we do our best to prepare for the overload, this was pretty unheard of.\u201d Campos says after they fixed the issue, and increased traffic space, they were able to pinpoint the issue. \u201cWe always want to improve our service,\u201d said Campos. \u201cAnd part of that is realizing your mistakes. We were able to pinpoint an unexpected amount of posts and traffic to a residential neighborhood in Denver.\u201d\n\nCampos explained there were a massive number of posts on the site from the area as well as comments and \u2018likes\u2019 which ultimately crashed the site. \u201cWe had never seen that kind of traffic before in one area,\u201d said Campos. \u201cWe may never again. But, we are at least prepared for it now.\u201d The area of Denver known as Stapleton<\/a> has an inordinate number of elementary schools for the size of the area. Parents of course are excited to show off their photos of their kids\u2019 first day of school, and these posts, along with the average 75 \u2018likes\u2019 for each photo ended up being the cause of the crash. The crash wasn\u2019t just dramatic for Facebook, but several Stapleton residents were slightly traumatized. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure what was going on,\u201d said Stapleton resident Nicole Hodges. \u201cI kept going to the site to check on my \u2018likes\u2019 and it just said site not found. It was really frustrating. I wasn\u2019t sure who was following me, and had no idea who was liking my photos and posts. It probably cost me 10 to 20 likes.\u201d Parent Katie McDonald was also frustrated. \u201cI was trying to make sure I liked everyone\u2019s first day of school posts,\u201d said McDonald. \u201cI was getting behind when suddenly, the site just shut down. I really hope I didn\u2019t miss anyone. Believe me, I was working hard to like everyone\u2019s posts. Especially on an important week like this.\u201d\nFacebook says they have included some safeguards to make sure the crash doesn\u2019t happen again. \u201cWe now understand how much traffic can spike in that area,\u201d said Campos. \u201cWe will make sure to have enough servers to handle twice that load next year.\u201d Good thing, because next year Stapleton will have twice as many back to school pictures. ]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-112","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}