“Today, among the most common causes of failures in the work of social networks are problems with the performance of data centers, for example, associated with engineering systems or insufficient redundancy,” the expert believes.
Saifutdinov stressed that often the cause of such failures could be equipment failure or software failures, virus and DDoS attacks.
“In order to prevent all these causes and to avoid failures in the future, it is necessary to take care of creating a backup platform for switching the load and stable operation of services. For example, if a company uses one data center to host data, then it is necessary to make an infrastructure reservation in the second data center. You can also use cloud service to ensure disaster resilience, ”he said.
Previously, users reported a crash on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook in different countries.
Problems in the Instagram application were recorded in residents of the United States, Britain, France, and other countries.
There were complaints about a number of problems in the functioning of the service, mainly problems with the news feed.