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Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by morelikeborelax »

threeseed wrote: post #148
morelikeborelax wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fastly gives them the edge performance they need without having to build it themselves. They have been a customer for a while I think.

AWS Route53 and Cloudfront are direct competitors to Fastly.

That's how good Fastly is. Outside of this issue it's a great service.

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Post by jonplackett »

antihero wrote: post #251
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

I wonder why amazon.co.uk uses Fastly and not CloudFront?

Must be more than fastly. Heroku is also down.

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Post by yvan »

nebulous1 wrote: post #276
yvan wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Arf, thanks for pointing at it, I misread. Sorry.

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Post by meibo »

jslakro wrote: post #284
tus89 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paypal back, off fastly

Why no other sites bypass the CDN and go directly?

If you aren't prepared to do CDN changes on a whim when something like this happens, it's often better to wait for the problem to be resolved instead of making things worse for yourself due to misconfigurations, revealing your origin IPs, etc.

Can always improve the process for the next outage.

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Post by unityByFreedom »

lucasverra wrote: post #168
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

But https://news.ycombinator.com/ is UP! :) Prepare those HN servers for massive influx in 3...2..1..

While we're here.. I am a bit surprised to see how many sites use Fastly. As a dev I've always been happy with Cloudflare.
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