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Major media, govt websites hit by global outage
yahoo.com ^ | June 8, 2021 | AFP via Yahoo.com

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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1 posted on 06/08/2021 12:11:14 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
blamed on a glitch

Is "glitch" a technical term?

2 posted on 06/08/2021 12:13:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Racists are obsessed with race, make everything about race, and project racism onto everybody else.)
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To: ransomnote

Bad actors testing in prep for the big one


3 posted on 06/08/2021 12:13:11 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ask Gus


4 posted on 06/08/2021 12:15:32 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: ransomnote
Major media, govt websites hit by global outage

Aww Gee Whiz ...

5 posted on 06/08/2021 12:18:54 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: ransomnote
Whoops...


6 posted on 06/08/2021 12:20:11 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: ransomnote

It was funny. All our sites working and theirs were down.


7 posted on 06/08/2021 12:22:58 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: ransomnote

They’re practicing hard.


8 posted on 06/08/2021 12:23:33 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: ransomnote

Small loss. I suppose there is no chance it could be permanent?


9 posted on 06/08/2021 12:25:09 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: ransomnote

“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.”


10 posted on 06/08/2021 12:28:49 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

govt=glitch


11 posted on 06/08/2021 12:40:41 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: ransomnote; Chode

Clouds are the white puffy and sometimes dark and scary things in the sky.

I have no use for cloud computing.


12 posted on 06/08/2021 12:46:37 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: mabarker1

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.


13 posted on 06/08/2021 1:02:38 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels ( )
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To: ransomnote

I never even noticed. Seems we can live without all that crap just fine thanks.


14 posted on 06/08/2021 2:55:21 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: mabarker1

I don’t like it either.


15 posted on 06/08/2021 3:10:10 PM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thdieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

p


16 posted on 06/08/2021 8:14:52 PM PDT by bitt ( A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.)
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To: ransomnote

Yeah, I lost communication lots here in Yellowstone. It’s nice.

😎


17 posted on 06/09/2021 6:31:03 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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