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Post by willj »

dspillett wrote: post #112
threeseed wrote: post #45

Shopify's CDN is down. Which is causing $15+ million in lost product sales for every hour of outage. Not to mention the loss of any new customers.

StackOverflow and all the StackExchange family of sites are down. I suspect the lost productivity from that will be more costly over the whole economy than potential lost sales via Shopify. People can go back to shopify so those transactions not definitely blocked for ever, any time "lost" due to reference resources being unavailable can't so easily be claimed back.

Makes me wonder how the engineers will fix this if they can’t visit Stack Overflow :)

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Post by jfny »

pimterry wrote: post #134

This is one of the things that excites me about IPFS: in a world of decentralized data storage, yes self-hosting and control over your data is nice and all, but serious resilience to most random infrastructure outages is a much bigger deal. It's still early days, but I'm hopeful that it can provide a real solution to today's CDN centralization.

I'm pretty sure you can serve hundreds if not thousands of users from a single Raspberry Pi

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Post by OJFord »

unityByFreedom wrote: post #309
lucasverra wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Me too, but in a way I'm even happier knowing that not everyone does and something else popular exists too.

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Post by ilaksh »

threeseed wrote: post #102
ClearAndPresent wrote: post #71

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.

Content-centric networking had been a central research topic for many years. And many potentially useful systems have been proposed and implemented.

At some point some of them will start to become popular.

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Post by busymom0 »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #277
huijzer wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CSS/Javascript at https://github.com/ appears to be down as well making GitHub quite unusable.

GitHub Pages appears to be down too, taking an awful lot of sites offline

Github is working fine for me in Canada but others aren't. Tried without browser cache too and it works okay.

EDIT: Most sites seem fixed now here in Canada. Tested stackoverflow, reddit, GitHub, PayPal, gov.UK and all worked fine.

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Post by xuki »

unityByFreedom wrote: post #309
lucasverra wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Now imagine how many sites would go down if it was CF

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Post by danso »

abunuwas wrote: post #311
antihero wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That doesn't appear to be the case does it? Amazon sites are all working fine, at least for me

Their CSS and JS were down for a few minutes. I was able to login to Amazon but the entire site was in Times New Roman, but was fixed a few minutes later

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Post by georgekeesjones »

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?

I imagine they use a few different CDNs for things like this.

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Post by jconnop »

TheDauthi wrote: post #191
sdflhasjd wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fully expect that if I find a "major outage" on Slack's status page that it could only mean the outbreak of nuclear war.

"Some users may experience brief service disruption."

I was going to link the appropriate XKCD where organised attackers are panicing as they realise they're dealing with a sysadmin muttering about uptime..

.. but of course XKCD is down too.

e: https://xkcd.com/705/

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