{"id":8185,"date":"2021-03-19T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=8185"},"modified":"2021-03-19T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:11:31","slug":"this-is-the-reason-why-whatsapp-instagram-messenger-and-fb-lite-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/this-is-the-reason-why-whatsapp-instagram-messenger-and-fb-lite-is-down\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the reason why WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and FB Lite is down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Inc&#8217;s platforms, including <strong>WhatsApp<\/strong>, <strong>Messenger<\/strong> and <strong>Instagram<\/strong>, are down for thousands of users on this Friday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com and its own users on Twitter obviously.<\/p>\n<p>Downdetector tracks outages by collecting status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outages affected a greater number of users.<\/p>\n<p>Although, as everyone knows, <strong>Facebook has a corporation<\/strong> which it attributes to certain important names such as &#8220;WhatsApp&#8221;; company that they acquired a couple of years ago, Instagram and Messenger (their own) and they are all super mega popular. Now, it seems that according to reports, the mega company has a messaging server issue which today had technical problems affecting millions of users.<\/p>\n<p>The errors and reports that were observed were especially in 3 of its 4 important platforms, these 3 being messaging: Facebook Lite Messenger, Messenger for Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram, while the social network Facebook, continues online and without showing errors.<\/p>\n<h2>What is a server?<\/h2>\n<p>Wikipedia tells us: In\u00a0<a title=\"Computing\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">computing<\/a>, a\u00a0<b>server<\/b>\u00a0is a piece of\u00a0<a title=\"Computer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">computer<\/a>\u00a0hardware or software (<a title=\"Computer program\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">computer program<\/a>) that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called &#8220;<a title=\"Client (computing)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Client_(computing)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clients<\/a>&#8220;. This\u00a0<a title=\"Systems architecture\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Systems_architecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">architecture<\/a>\u00a0is called the\u00a0<a title=\"Client\u2013server model\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Client%E2%80%93server_model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">client\u2013server model<\/a>. Servers can provide various functionalities, often called &#8220;services&#8221;, such as sharing data or\u00a0<a title=\"System resource\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/System_resource\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resources<\/a>\u00a0among multiple clients, or performing\u00a0<a title=\"Computation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">computation<\/a>\u00a0for a client. A single server can serve multiple clients, and a single client can use multiple servers. A client process may run on the same device or may connect over a network to a server on a different device.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ft9ce8vwwx0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ft9ce8vwwx0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most probably, your information is safe, but it is currently floating due to a server issue, which causes not a 404 (not found) error but a<strong> freeze in the operation of the platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Inc&#8217;s platforms, including WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, are down for thousands of users on this Friday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com and its own users on Twitter obviously. Downdetector tracks outages by collecting status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outages affected a greater number of users. 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