Global glitch: Swaths of internet decrease after cloud outage
Multiple important websites went offline briefly Tuesday just after an apparent outage at the cloud company Fastly, and there have been still reports of sporadic disruptions following the company patched the condition about an hour later.
Dozens of sites like the New York Times, CNN, Twitch, Reddit, the Guardian, and the UK government's website, could not be reached.
San Francisco-based Fastly acknowledged a problem right before 10 a good.m. It explained in repeated updates on its site that it was “continuing to investigate the problem."
About one hour later, the company said: "The issue has been identified and a repair has been applied. Clients may experience increased origin load as global services return."
Several sites which were hit early were coming back online.
Some visitors trying to gain access to CNN.com got a note having said that: “Fastly error: unknown domain: cnn.com.” Attempts to access the Financial Times web-site turned up an identical message while appointments to the New York Times and UK government's gov.uk internet site returned an "Error 503 Service Unavailable" message, together with the brand “Varnish cache server," that is a technology that Fastly is built on.
Down Detector, which tracks internet outages, said: “Reports indicate there might be a widespread outage at Fastly, which may be impacting your service.”
Fastly describes itself as an “edge cloud platform." It offers essential but obscure behind-the-moments cloud computing offerings to numerous of the web's visible sites, by supporting them to store, or “cache,” content in servers around the world, permitting users to fetch it quicker and smoothly rather than needing to access the site's original server.
Source: japantoday.com
