Before the "Error 503 Service Unavailable" messages appeared, there were a few minutes where the error was a single line: connection failure Not sure if that provides anyone here with more insight into what might have caused this!
Fastly Outage
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#283https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-inter... The whole idea of the internet was a distributed network impervious to most attacks. The reality is that a single failure can knock out 90% of the services people use.
There are ten websites left on the internet and they're all hosted by four or so megacorps. Isn't it great?
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#284This 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
Paypal back, off fastly
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#285This 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
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#286Since 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?
They literally have their own directly competing CDN product. You'd think they'd be dogfooding it.
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#287This 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
Just checked, thank god the NHS vaccine site is still available - vaccines just got rolled out for under 30s today.
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#290This 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
"A number of leading media websites are currently not working, including the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent and the New York Times."