Major websites go down worldwide
Financial Times, New York Times, Bloomberg News, and Guardian websites all crashed on Tuesday.
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The UK government's main website was unavailable while the White House site had an error message for a period [Getty Images]
8 Jun 2021
Government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online on Tuesday after being hit by a widespread outage linked to US-based cloud company Fastly.
High traffic sites including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, Paypal, Spotify, Al Jazeera Media Network, and The New York Times were all listed as experiencing problems by outage tracking website Downdetector.com, but appeared to be coming back up after outages that ranged from a few minutes to around an hour.
Fastly, one of the world’s most widely used cloud based content delivery network providers, said
France’s Le Monde newspaper started showing error messages that appeared on the website at approximately 10:00 GMT. Britain’s Guardian newspaper said its website and app were affected. Sites of other British news media were also not loading.the issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.
The UK government’s main website too was unavailable. The White House website had an error message but was later working.
The BBC and The New York Times were temporarily inaccessible but later returned.
Messages such as “Error 503 Service Unavailable” and “connection failure” appeared.
San Francisco-based Fastly acknowledged a problem just before 10:00 GMT. It said in repeated updates on its website it was
Many of the websites were slowly coming back online by 11:00 GMT.continuing to investigate the issue.
‘Widespread outage’
Visitors trying to access CNN.com got a message saying:
Down Detector earlier said:Fastly error: unknown domain: cnn.com.
Fastly describes itself as an “edge cloud platform”. It provides vital behind-the-scenes cloud computing services to many of the internet’s high-profile websites by helping them store, or “cache”, content on servers around the world so it is closer to users.Reports indicate there may be a widespread outage at Fastly, which may be impacting your service.
Nearly 21,000 Reddit users reported issues with the social media platform, while more than 2,000 users reported problems with Amazon, according to Downdetector.com.
Twitter users quickly jumped on the global outage, creating the #InternetShutdown hashtag with KITKAT’s official handle telling followers,
Guess it’s time to Have A Break.
tweeted Jitse Groen, chief executive of food delivery group Just Eat Takeaway.com.We were offline for a few minutes because the whole internet broke down,
