Facebook down? Houston, we have a problem…

I thought there was something odd going on this morning, when I found I couldn’t sign up using the e-mail address / username / password option to a site that offered a Facebook sign-up option – not that I’d ever use Facebook that way.

The Facebook bit looked broken, and a quick check in Internet Explorer confirmed it – facebook was DOWN!!!!

Oh dear.

Not reassuring.

Single point of failure, anyone?

Time to think a bit more carefully about the ‘eggs in one basket’ problem, methinks. And it makes this spoof from last month look semi-prophetic. Well, almost.