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Websites Begin to Work Again After Major Breakage

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

upstart writes:

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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• Re:The "cloud" is opposite its intent Re:The "cloud" is opposite its intent (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.

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• Re:The "cloud" is opposite its intent Re:The "cloud" is opposite its intent (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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  The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

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  • Re:The "cloud" is opposite its intent Re:The "cloud" is opposite its intent (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.

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    • Re:The "cloud" is opposite its intent Re:The "cloud" is opposite its intent (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.

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      • Re:The "cloud" is opposite its intent (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.

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