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Re: Fastly Outage

#271
post #152

I briefly saw an output error about "domain not found" when hitting fastly.com, wonder if some list of domains has hit a limit/flushed/etc.

I get this now on reddit:

    Fastly error: unknown domain: www.reddit.com.

Re: Fastly Outage

#272

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

Interestingly, Twitter only has its emoji SVGs down.

And this is (one reason) why using images instead of actual emojis is such a stupid idea. Why, Twitter, WHY?

Re: Fastly Outage

#273
post #183
post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Centralising everything™ and the whole internet goes down because of that.

if by "everything" you mean one thing, and by "centralize" you mean not centralized, then sure.

How is having a large chunk of the internet using the same CDN provider not "centralizing"? It's not a hard monopoly obviously but still it meets the definition of centralization.

Re: Fastly Outage

#274

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

www.gov.uk & bbc are back

Re: Fastly Outage

#275
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

I assumed it was an intentional pun.

Re: Fastly Outage

#276
post #267

Yeah so it's been mentioned in the comments already, but to everyone in Fastly right now: I feel for you. Something like this must be insanely stressful, and not just during the outage. There will be (should be) a massive post-mortem. People will be losing sleep over this for days, weeks, months. :( Edit: There seems to be a major empathy outage in this thread. Disgusted but not surprised, unfortunately.

Well, not much, I mean all our competitors are also using Fastly. I would be more worried if we were the only one using Fastly and everybody else was fine. But as we are all in the same boat, we lose the same :-)

He's talking about Fastly themselves, not their customers

Re: Fastly Outage

#277

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

CSS/Javascript at https://github.com/ appears to be down as well making GitHub quite unusable.

GitHub Pages appears to be down too, taking an awful lot of sites offline

Re: Fastly Outage

#278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The m.media-amazon.com domain (and a few other CDN'd domains that they use) are running through Fastly: nslookup m.media-amazon.com Name: media.amazon.map.fastly.net It is very interesting that they are not using CloudFront!

Why?

Re: Fastly Outage

#279
Since Fastly’s own website is currently down:

What is fastly? Why are a huge number of web sites dependent on them? They are some kind of web host for companies that don’t want to run their own servers/data centers?

Re: Fastly Outage

#280
post #39

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

also https://www.reddit.com (at least in Netherlands) edit: 12:05 up again for me, no images or custom fonts loading though ... and down again 1 minute later edit: 13:01 reliably up again for me

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