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#281
post #104

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!

I also saw a glimpse of 'I/O error'. That sounds fun.

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#283
post #60

https://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?

Most people don't need any of them to continue with their life though!

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#284
post #130

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

Paypal back, off fastly

Why no other sites bypass the CDN and go directly?

Re: Fastly Outage

#285

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

twitch.tv Too.

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#286
post #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?

I'm particularly intrigued as to why Amazon.com uses them.

They literally have their own directly competing CDN product. You'd think they'd be dogfooding it.

Re: Fastly Outage

#287

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

> [0] https://www.gov.uk/

Just checked, thank god the NHS vaccine site is still available - vaccines just got rolled out for under 30s today.

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#290

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://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57399628

"A number of leading media websites are currently not working, including the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent and the New York Times."

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