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Re: Fastly Outage

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post #54

Why is this a link to the Fastly homepage, where absolutely no information is provided? This is the page that should be linked: https://status.fastly.com

Oddly their homepage rendering an error was a more accurate description of the problem than "investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN"

Re: Fastly Outage

#172
post #138
post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amusingly, the Stackoverflow 503 page has a typo: Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru *Mediation*: Details: cache-lon4236-LON 1623146049 854282175 Varnish cache server

Looks like an error (typo) with Varnish .. it's the same on multiple sites. Maybe a good way to work out which versions are being used.

It's interesting because Varnish gets it write in their docs: https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/troubleshoo...

Re: Fastly Outage

#174
post #53

I didn't know so many sites were depending on Fastly. Stack Overflow, GitHub, reddit, .... Even pip is unavailable. My development workflow is completely janked up. It is a bit scary that we are putting too many eggs in one basket.

fastly gives free service to things like pip. It's actually very nice.

Re: Fastly Outage

#176
post #53

I didn't know so many sites were depending on Fastly. Stack Overflow, GitHub, reddit, .... Even pip is unavailable. My development workflow is completely janked up. It is a bit scary that we are putting too many eggs in one basket.

Blame site operators that are single homing and not loadbalancing CDNs

Re: Fastly Outage

#177

This seems to be impacting a number of huge sites, including the UK government website[0]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/ https://m.media-amazon.com/ https://pages.github.com/ https://www.paypal.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/ https://nytimes.com/ Edit: Fastly's incident report status page: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

https://docs.npmjs.com down as well

Re: Fastly Outage

#178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

StackOverflow and all the StackExchange family of sites are down. I suspect the lost productivity from that will be more costly over the whole economy than potential lost sales via Shopify. People can go back to shopify so those transactions not definitely blocked for ever, any time "lost" due to reference resources being unavailable can't so easily be claimed back.

I don't think you understand how ecommerce works. A very significant amount of people won't go back. It's why the most effective marketing campaign by far is retargeting those people to convince them to come back. Unfortunately that's not possible in this case since you can't track the users as the site is unusable.

Some sites are on Cloudflare, right? Looks like we have a natural experiment to test this belief!

Re: Fastly Outage

#180
post #125

This seems to be impacting a number of huge sites, including the UK government website[0]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/ https://m.media-amazon.com/ https://pages.github.com/ https://www.paypal.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/ https://nytimes.com/ Edit: Fastly's incident report status page: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

Amusingly, the Stackoverflow 503 page has a typo: Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru *Mediation*: Details: cache-lon4236-LON 1623146049 854282175 Varnish cache server

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