Lots of big companies have experienced
significant downtime this year. In January, storage and syncing service Dropbox
experienced technical problems following a routine server upgrade that went
wrong. The service was offline for around three hours and it took a couple of
days for full access to be restored to all users.
In June, Facebook went down across
the globe and remained inaccessible for around half an hour. That might not
sound like long, but it was the worst outage the social network had experienced
since 2010 when it went down for two and a half hours. In August, Facebook
suffered another outage, along with Instagram, but this was only a short one.
Google was hit by technical problems
in July. with a “500” error that scuppered web searches along with some of the
web giant’s services. The mobi’e version of Google remained unaffected.
BBC iPlayer experienced problems
in July that also affected iPlayer Radio and audio and video playback on other
parts of the BBC’s website. It took a couple of days for the service to get
back to normal.
