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Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by notyourday »

maest wrote: post #125
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

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

Fastly modified the Varnish error to ensure that it is known if the error is returned by Fastly's Varnish or by the origin's Varnish should the customer run their own Varnish on the origin.

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Post by CactusBlue »

mothershesha wrote: post #225
parksy wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No issues reported for Perth Australia. Strange because reddit, zip pay, fastly itself, and probably a bunch of other sites are down. Doesn't seem the status page is automatically updated or perhaps whatever event or polling is used is also broken.

Im experiencing the outage here in brissy its not looking good

In Adelaide, experiencing the outage as well.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by zelphirkalt »

monkeydust wrote: post #143

Pretty bad www.gov.uk is down as more services move to digital.

I don't think moving to digital is the issue here. The issue is relying on third parties, which can have an issue at any moment, taking down whoever relies on them with them.

A government should not rely on CDNs like that. In fact government websites should not have any traffic going over third parties. When I want to use/view a government website, I should not be subjected to sharing any data with unwanted third parties and the government should not be affected, when some private company makes mistakes or has outages. It is an unacceptable situation.

They can set up their own state-owned CDN, using the same underlying technology. Compared to where they spend all that tax money, some servers and some engineers would be a very cheap investment, in relation to the independence achieved.

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Post by ysavir »

Tangential question, but with services like these, is there a known way to handle failure gracefully? Some way to automatically bypass these services if they are known to be down?

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Post by jamespo »

lpmitchell wrote: post #108
schappim wrote: post #81

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!

Good to have 3rd party redundancy, time to fail over to something else now I'd think though.

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Post by jfny »

ceejayoz wrote: post #286
evouga wrote: 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.

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Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by lutoma »

ju-st wrote: post #110
black_puppydog wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of these work from here in Grenoble, France...

Germany here (n=1), everything works except reddit and ft.com

Same from Germany, all of these seem up except for reddit and ft. Maybe we got lucky with our edge node...

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Post by kevincox »

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

> potential impact to performance

So it is a "performance" issue when all pages give a 503.

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