Breaking news – An internet outage is
taking down some of the most popular websites!!
On Tuesday the 8th of June across the globe, websites and social media
platforms have been affected - either not loading and showing an error
message or not working fully.
A number of leading websites are currently not working including Reddit, Twitch,
Etsy, PayPal, and more. The UK Government website, gov.uk is also down as other
parts of the BBC.
Some of the affected websites displayed the message: "Error 503 Service
Unavailable". Other sites are refusing to work properly or not loading some
parts of the website.
The issues are coming from the result of a problem with Fastly, a cloud
computing company that provide key services to many websites. Fastly are an
American cloud computing services provider, that are used by some of the biggest
companies all over the world
Fastly offers services such as speeding up loading times for websites, protect
them from denial-of-service cyberattacks and helping them deal with bursts of
traffic in order to stay online and stable.
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ccn.com website down
github.com website down
reddit.com website down
Stackoverflow.com website down
Fastly said that it is “currently investigating potential impact to performance
with our CDN services”. Two further updates posted since only made clear that
the company is “continuing to investigate this issue”.
More news to follow!