Posted on 06/08/2021 12:11:14 PM PDT by ransomnote
Major media and government websites, including the White House, New York Times, Reddit and Amazon were temporarily down on Tuesday after being hit by a global outage blamed on a glitch from cloud computing services provider Fastly.
The widespread outages around 1000 GMT also hit the UK government website, CNN and the BBC before resuming services more than an hour later.
"Error 503 Service Unavailable" and "connection failure" messages appeared on several websites, later blamed on a problem at San Francisco-based firm Fastly, which scrambled to restore sites.
The company offers a service to websites around the world to speed up loading time for websites.
It competes with rivals such as Akamai and Cloudflare, which handle hundreds of billions of requests every day, playing a key role in global internet access.
Fastly's clients span the globe, and include Deliveroo, Pinterest and Shazam, with a turnover of $291 million last year alone.
The firm said in a tweet after the outages that "the issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return."
It later confirmed "our global network is coming back online", as service was restored on most sites.
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It was funny. All our sites working and theirs were down.
They’re practicing hard.
Small loss. I suppose there is no chance it could be permanent?
“Major Media, govt web sites hit by global outage.”
“National bullsh*t meter unexpectedly drops to zero. No one knows why.”
“GDP unexpectedly rises, inflation showed a temporary drop, and nation’s IQ mysteriously rose for a short while, unexpectedly.”
govt=glitch
Clouds are the white puffy and sometimes dark and scary things in the sky.
I have no use for cloud computing.
I like the orange clouds around sunset and even sunrisethe best, There is much use for the beautiful clouds, like the beautiful dreamers too, bc they inspire me to keep on keeping on.
I never even noticed. Seems we can live without all that crap just fine thanks.
I don’t like it either.
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Yeah, I lost communication lots here in Yellowstone. It’s nice.
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