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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..
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Because HN and those who use less or those who use backup services are smart and those who are caught now have to panic and wait. Probably going to short the hell out of $FSLY.
Over one issue that highlights they have an abundance of top level customers? Interesting strategy when it's already at a low.
They proudly stated this from their own website to their customers:
> "Fastly’s network has built-in redundancies and automatic failover routing to ensure optimal performance and uptime."
If that isn't one huge lie, I don't know what is.
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.
People need to be blamed, and responsibility for actions taken (without covering asses)
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
What conclusions can we draw about concentrating web content in a few CDNs?
In HTML/CSS you should be able to specify a fallback source if the first returns a non-200. Or that companies need to have better DNS strategies.
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?
Basically the closer the server serving the webpage is to the end user the faster it is for the end user to see and interact with.
But running servers all over the world 1) isn't efficient 2) costs a lot of money.
So a few companies (fastly, cloud flare, akamai) figured, hey, why don't we build a bunch of small data centers all over the world and then provide a distributed way to serve web traffic from it.
It originally was brought about for services like Netflix, but has expanded greatly.
You still host your servers, but a copy of the webpage/media is given to the CDN to serve to customers.