Fastly Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by dragosbulugean » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:22 AM UTC

And all Webflow sites it seems...

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by stevenwliao » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

lpmitchell wrote: post #9

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

Seems to affect Target ( https://www.target.com/ ) and Reddit ( https://www.reddit.com/ ) as well.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by allyant » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #102

ClearAndPresent wrote: post #71

What conclusions can we draw about concentrating web content in a few CDNs?

In HTML/CSS you should be able to specify a fallback source if the first returns a non-200. Or that companies need to have better DNS strategies.

> In HTML/CSS you should be able to specify a fallback source if the first returns a non-200.

Except if the HTML/CSS is hosted on that CDN?

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by maelito » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

lpmitchell wrote: post #9

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

nature.com

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by fsnowdin » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

just had my own site down because of this. glad to see it wasn't my fault lol but good luck to the Fastly people on fixing the issue.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by optiomal_isgood » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

Amazon.com was completely broken here (Europe) and they're back, I was observing from where the assets were loaded from and they switched from EU to NA as a failover. Homework well done.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by easytiger » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

I will NEVER understand why people put so much trust in single provider solutions for anything critical.

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Post by adzicg » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

schappim wrote: post #81

threeseed wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder why Amazon is not using Cloudfront for their own website.

Yeah, this is what makes me feel this is more an AWS thing

looks like amazon.com started using fastly in May 2020 (https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...) so it's not an AWS thing

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by AkshitGarg » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

an0n4u wrote: post #40

numpy docs, too. i think it's cloudflare related as well. at least, I keep seeing some cloudflare errors interpolated with the 503 varnish error.

Well they thought that using a CDN over a CDN would be a good idea

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Post by sergiomattei » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

Yikes, seems like a massive outage.

EDIT: Hexdocs is down, elixir-lang.org is down