MOSCOW, February 18 A failure in Telegram affected several SDN servers in different countries, including Russia, where media content is stored, a leading analyst at Mobile Research Group shared this opinion Eldar Murtazin.
“»The failure is related to the availability and connectivity of servers. It affected several countries, servers, the so-called SDN. Where media content is stored,» Murtazin said.
He noted that the failure did not last long, but occurred “due to the architecture of Telegram” and the poor connection to the messenger in Russia of several hosting providers, which also experienced a failure.
“It all came together,” the expert added.
According to him, work has now been restored, everything is functioning, but, for example, when opening an application it may say “update”, and by default all media are not loaded, they are put into a stream.
«But if you click on a video, for example, it will load quite quickly,” Murtazin explained.
Earlier on Sunday, Russians complained about a malfunction in Telegram, and there were more than 5 thousand complaints about the service in Downradar. Roskomnadzor confirmed a failure of the messenger in Russia and a number of other countries. According to the department, the failure was previously caused by a problem with the functioning of the service’s internal infrastructure.
Later, the agency’s correspondents were convinced that the application had been restored. At 15:40 Moscow time, according to Downradar, there were no complaints about Telegram not working on the service.