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Re: Fastly Outage

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jb1991 wrote: post #312
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

For what its worth, I'm having these problems also with cnn.com, reddit and many others, however when I switch away from WiFi to use my cell provider network, they work fine.

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Post by busymom0 »

sammygreen wrote: post #56
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

Seems to be every site that runs varnish...

I think Fastly is the one having problems (they happen to use varnish but I haven't seen anything which says varnish is the root cause) - so all sites using it are down.

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Post by JulianWasTaken »

liveoneggs wrote: post #174
barosl wrote: post #53

I didn't know so many sites were depending on Fastly. Stack Overflow, GitHub, reddit, .... Even pip is unavailable. My development workflow is completely janked up. It is a bit scary that we are putting too many eggs in one basket.

fastly gives free service to things like pip. It's actually very nice.

Bit pedantic, but it's PyPI that Fastly gives services to, not pip (and PyPI that's down, not pip). The two are only loosely related – pip is a piece of software.

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Post by caseymarquis »

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

Fastly Engineer 1: Seems like a common error message. Can you check stackoverflow to see if there's an easy fix?

Fastly Engineer 2: I have some very bad news...

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Post by H8crilA »

austinjp wrote: post #166

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.

Imagine losing sleep over a corporate problem where you're just the next Joe Engineer, to be fired the second you're not needed. Have some perspective people.

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Post by jokoon »

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.

Agree, but currently, ipfs would serve as a fallback, since it's about files. Decentralized/distributed generally has slower network performance.

Unless most nodes are high performance, I guess?

Personally I think a distributed database system, where entries are being made redundant in something like a blockchain+dht, would be a good start?

Decentralizing the internet works if it financially makes sense for platforms to build such tools.

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