Fastly Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Fastly Outage

#501

Post by colesantiago » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 11:09 AM UTC

Also, why has this been allowed to happen? Billions of dollars lost because of this one company?

I don't understand this.

Re: Fastly Outage

#502

Post by maccard » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 11:09 AM UTC

spoonalious wrote: post #244

superzamp wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lowkey status reports are the norm now :) "some users may experience degraded service" => site completely down for all locations

Or the AWS typical status of ‘seeing increased error rates on the API’ = us-east-1 is dead

At least that's accurate. "Degraded performance" would imply to me that things are functional, but slow. increased error rates can be anything from "try again" to ":shrug:"

Re: Fastly Outage

#503

Post by tinaranw123 » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 11:09 AM UTC

I HAVE FLUTTER EXAMINATION TOMORROW BUT STACKOVERFLOW IS DOWN. SHIT :)

Re: Fastly Outage

#504

Post by grumple » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 11:09 AM UTC

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.

Does Shopify do that much when the US is asleep?

Re: Fastly Outage

#505

Post by tinaranw123 » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 11:10 AM UTC

I HAVE FLUTTER PROJECT FOR MY EXAM TOM AND STACKOVERFLOW IS DOWN. SHIT :) I'M FCKED

Re: Fastly Outage

#506

Post by ohashi » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 11:10 AM UTC

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #425

xuki wrote: post #357

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Do more rely on Cloudflare? Because this felt like it was more than half the internet, certainly more than half the biggest sites.

I think so, Fastly seems to have a few huge enterprise clients while Cloudflare seems more balanced (and larger)

Re: Fastly Outage

#507

Post by milliams » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 11:10 AM UTC

collyw wrote: post #383

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

Click the new tab. Lots of posts about sites being down. All flagged.

Yes, because they're all just repeats of this one.

Re: Fastly Outage

#508

Post by factsaresacred » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 11:10 AM UTC

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.

Google's Firebase platform uses Fastly so that's a significant chunk of the web.

Re: Fastly Outage

#509

Post by reuben_scratton » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 11:10 AM UTC

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that today is Patch Tuesday.

:-|

Re: Fastly Outage

#510

Post by creamyhorror » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 11:10 AM UTC

busymom0 wrote: post #442

creamyhorror wrote: post #12

basically the internet is down reddit, stackoverflow, github, paypal, pypi, twitter, twitch, NYT, CNN, BBC, the Guardian... edit: wow, even Amazon.com relies on Fastly for some of its edge caches!

> stackoverflow How will they troubleshoot the error messages now?

gasp you're absolutely right...!