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Re: Fastly Outage

#61

Here's the status page incident for this. https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

> We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services. Guys, you are offline with a 503 error, this is a little more than "potential impact to performance".

Lowkey status reports are the norm now :)

"some users may experience degraded service" => site completely down for all locations

Re: Fastly Outage

#62
So I'm wondering where in the "hundreds of servers around the world" did they exactly go wrong.

This happened with Cloudflare before too. I think we are a little too dependent on these services.

Re: Fastly Outage

#63
post #39

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

also https://www.reddit.com (at least in Netherlands) edit: 12:05 up again for me, no images or custom fonts loading though ... and down again 1 minute later edit: 13:01 reliably up again for me

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Re: Fastly Outage

#65

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

PayPal seems to be working for me at the moment. Rest of the sites are 503s.

Re: Fastly Outage

#66

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

and Imgix

Re: Fastly Outage

#67

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

also https://www.ft.com/

Re: Fastly Outage

#68

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 is not using Cloudfront for their own website.
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