Until this post is written, Friendster website is already down about 4 days and redirected to "temporary maintenance" page. Most of the Friendster user around the complained that they all lost their friends about 75% from their friends list including the group that they created or joined. So, what happen to this popular social network website?

After gathering some information on Google search, this problem happen due to outage in Friendster datacenter at Sunnyvale. It occurs when the Globix, the Friendster datacenter provider want to upgrade its power system and the power went into problem and effects every server that holds the Friendster database. Here are the update from Friendster Support Team:

"We’re aware of the problem that some users are having with missing friends. We experienced a major power outage the other day, that we’re still recovering from.
We are actively working on resolving the problem with missing friends. Rest assured that no friends have actually been lost — even though it may appear so on the website! The problem should be fixed within the next 24 hours. We apologize for this inconvenience."

[Via Datacenterknowledge]