I Can't Log In To My Fb Account. Fb Maintenance?

I get this error message. Account Unavailable Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Answer #1: Posted by tfarner7 on September 8th, 2011 4:55 AM

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Most of the time, they are just doing maintenance and usually doesn't take as long as they say. Sometimes there is something in your cache or problem with your browser that may cause this message. Clear your cache and reboot your computer, if you still get that message then it is a temporary downtime for maintenance.

Answer #2: Posted by kcmjr on September 9th, 2011 9:47 AM

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Facebook has over 500 million users.

The hardware required to manage that many accounts is massive. The databases alone are huge and they are on numerous machines scattered about the world.

The result is that there is no way they can maintain 100% uptime. Occasionally something must be taken offline for maintenance.

What you are experiencing is just site maintenance. The databases and/or the web servers and other hardware that manage your account are being serviced.

This type of work can take up to 24 to 48 hours to complete. One would think Facebook would have redundant clustered systems but that does not seem to be the case.

There could be other issues as well but since they are less than forthcoming on such things you will simply need to wait it out. They have no tech support phone number so there is no one you can call.

Go to this web page for a full explenation: http://facebookdown.com/account-currently-unavailable

Also, the hacker group "anonymous" has threatened to knock Facebook off the Internet on November 5th coinciding with Guy Fawkes night. Hackers do occasionally attack Facebook but only occasionally succeed in doing any damage. This could also be a factor in what you're seeing

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