Facebook's Domino Effect Is Out, Internet Checking Sites Are Also Burdened, This Is The Cause!

The site Is It Down Right Now, got into trouble when Facebook went out. (photo: screenshot)

JAKARTA - When something happens, like a Facebook Group outage, it has a huge knock-on effect. For example, to a website that aims to notify users if a site's services are down, called Is It Down Right Now.

This site has to struggle desperately under the burden of many people trying to view their Instagram and Facebook status, which suddenly becomes inaccessible. This flood of users who just want to know makes Is It Down Right Now, also problematic.

Cloudflare, a company that runs a DNS service (DNS acts like a map for your web browser when it tries to find a website as well as a possible culprit in the event of a major outage), reports that they have had to mobilize additional resources to keep traffic from people trying to log into Facebook. (or Instagram or WhatsApp) repeatedly.

If you need to check if another site is down, you still have options. There's a DownDetector that you can use, as well as Down for Everyone or Just Me (DFEOJM which can tell you that you're not the only one having problems with Is It Down).

Of course, when Facebook is down, we all need to do something to make sure. The official Twitter account, as well as Jack Dorsey himself, happily poked fun at the situation. This makes Twitter even flooded with users. However, every site has its limits. As a result, Twitter broke for some users as well. The company status page says there is an issue with its API, which has been resolved.

In the world of hacking, there is something called a DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack, where the attacker is basically collecting a lot of computing resources and using them to generate a lot of traffic to a website. This condition causes the website to go down because it is too busy handling traffic on the web

If they don't have enough power, the website will die — and that's most likely the case with Is It Down Right Now. Instead of being the work of a malicious hacker, half of the internet users may accidentally flood their service wanting only what is really going on with Facebook. That's what happens when the Facebook status page goes down which then results in the same thing with other services.