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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 08 2021, @02:39PM   Printer-friendly

Websites begin to work again after major breakage:

A major outage has affected a number of major websites including Amazon, Reddit and Twitch.

The UK government website - gov.uk - was also down as were the Financial Times, the Guardian and the New York Times.

Cloud computing provider Fastly, which underpins a lot of major websites, said it was behind the problems.

The firm said there were issues with its global content delivery network (CDN) and was implementing a fix.

In a statement, it said: "We identified a service configuration that triggered disruption across our POPs (points of presence) globally and have disabled that configuration.

"Our global network is coming back online."

[...] Fastly runs what is known as an "edge cloud", which is designed to speed up loading times for websites, as well as protect them from denial-of-service attacks and help them when traffic is peaking.

It currently looks as if the problems were localised, meaning specific locations across Europe and the US were affected.

Also at c|net


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Tuesday June 08 2021, @03:09PM (10 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday June 08 2021, @03:09PM (#1143152) Journal

    The "cloud" was supposed to mean content is distributed (torrent fashion) over various servers around the globe, not a single company that can blow things up on a whim.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Tork on Tuesday June 08 2021, @03:32PM (9 children)

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 08 2021, @03:32PM (#1143162)
    It's not like the whole internet went down. *Any* service has a single point of failure when you go high enough up the chain.
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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Socrastotle on Tuesday June 08 2021, @05:01PM (4 children)

      by Socrastotle (13446) on Tuesday June 08 2021, @05:01PM (#1143199) Journal

      This isn't true. Well implemented decentralized services, like Bitcoin, have no single point of failure. Even if the entire internet was destroyed, the more robust decentralized services would continue to work with minimal to no modification on the resultant intranets that would rapidly spring up.

      • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday June 08 2021, @05:43PM (3 children)

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday June 08 2021, @05:43PM (#1143217) Journal

        I'm pretty sure a humanity-destroying asteroid impact would also terminate the Bitcoin network. Not that anyone would still care.

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        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 08 2021, @06:59PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 08 2021, @06:59PM (#1143243)

          Yea, nobody would care about bitcoin. But if an asteroid destroyed all smart phones, THAT would be the end of the world.

          • (Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday June 08 2021, @07:24PM (1 child)

            by looorg (578) on Tuesday June 08 2021, @07:24PM (#1143250)

            But if an asteroid destroyed all smart phones, THAT would be the end of the world.

            It would have to be a pretty big asteroid. Humans, and/or the planet would not survive the event. That said it would be a fantastic and wonderful thing if all smartphones just selfbricked and we had to move on. We would all be better off.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 08 2021, @10:30PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 08 2021, @10:30PM (#1143300)

              the "pigs" would be responsible for the asteroid, just was well there are people starting to fight [gadgethacks.com] back.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Tuesday June 08 2021, @05:02PM (1 child)

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday June 08 2021, @05:02PM (#1143201) Journal

      It was only a test, to demonstrate how easy it is to knock you offline. But the fault here is concentrating all the hosting in one place, exactly the opposite of how to run a reliable network.

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      • (Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday June 08 2021, @05:41PM

        by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 08 2021, @05:41PM (#1143215)
        Is it common when hooking up with a service like this to get a list of other clients that service has? "We turned this service down because topographically it doesn't make sense."
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    • (Score: 4, Informative) by PinkyGigglebrain on Tuesday June 08 2021, @05:50PM

      by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Tuesday June 08 2021, @05:50PM (#1143221)

      *Any* service has a single point of failure when you go high enough up the chain.

      So very true [xkcd.com]

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    • (Score: 2) by stormreaver on Wednesday June 09 2021, @12:47PM

      by stormreaver (5101) on Wednesday June 09 2021, @12:47PM (#1143498)

      *Any* service has a single point of failure when you go high enough up the chain.

      Exactly, which is what makes cloud computing so pointless. All you're doing is moving the point of failure from something you can control and fix to something you can't control and can't fix. The one and only thing that makes it in any way, shape, or form not 100% stupid to host your services on someone else's servers is the outrageous price of bandwidth. Remove that obstacle, and it becomes completely idiotic to not host your own stuff.

      When uncapped fiber to the premises takes over (we're starting to see it happen in some locations, such as my own), the whole cloud computer insanity will become obsolete. This whole thing has already played out in the past, which is how the PC revolution took off so fast: the failings of central control encouraged decentralization. This has happened before, and it will happen again.