Facestat.com web servers went offline early Sunday afternoon. For several hours the site was showing a 505 error. Reportedly, without any warning the site was put on the front page of Yahoo.com causing a 1000x increase in web traffic. More than enough new traffic to crash most web servers.

Facestat.com Down with 505 Errors

The 505 error showing on Facestat’s front page breifly changed to a 403 error page. Then an hour later a message from Facestat staff replaced the 403 error with a breif message expalining they plan to be back online in a couple of hours or after they are removed from Yahoo’s front page.
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