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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
I wonder why Amazon is not using Cloudfront for their own website.
Let's use a handful of providers for everything, they said. It will be cheaper, they said. It will be easier to manage, they said.
And it was cheaper, until downtimes began to affect more and more sites when central SPOFs got hit.
And I wonder how much of that need for these centralized SPOFs actually comes from the sheer absurd amount of bloat, ads, code and assets that sites these days "have" to deliver to the customer. I 'member times when pages had 100kb total size, loaded in an instant and were perfectly usable.
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".
> CDN Performance Impact
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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
I thought that one of the principles behind the Internet is to be able to reroute around failures, but neither these service providers nor their clients ever seem to learn.
I guess in their mind that only applies to packet routing not services. SMH
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
pypi.org, but not https://status.python.org/ - I'm impressed that they actually hosted the status page differently!
Fastly itself has its status page up as well: https://status.fastly.com/
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
All of these work from here in Grenoble, France...
edit: My whole Twitter timeline is full of posts saying "Twitter outage? what outage?". Same on Reddit and Twitch chat, feels like for a short time I was invited into some exclusive circle lmao. StackOverflow and other StackExchange sites also work so I can look stuff up for you.