Popular cloud service provider Fastly, which offers enterprise-grade infrastructure to some of the most popular websites around the world, faced a server outage earlier today. This resulted in popular websites such as Twitch, Reddit, GitHub, The New York Times, Lonely Planet, Shazam, The Rolling Stone and more were suddenly not being accessible on the internet. The Fastly content delivery network (CDN) outage was acknowledged by the company as well, which disclosed at 3:28 pm IST that an investigation was underway.
While the websites were soon back online, netizens wasted no time reacting to the outage in their own ways.
Has Piers blamed Meghan yet? #InternetDown— Otto English (@Otto_English) June 8, 2021
South Park predicted it, kinda. #InternetDown pic.twitter.com/qb92TSgGml— (@PaulMcGarraghy) June 8, 2021
No one listened to Jen. Now look.#internetdown pic.twitter.com/XeOe6YijYT— Gene McGurk (@magawk) June 8, 2021
Live footage as the techies at Fastly try to fix The Internet…#outage #InternetDown #InternetShutdown pic.twitter.com/QWu337PR50— Division Order (@divisionorderuk) June 8, 2021
Me right now #internetDown #reddit #github pic.twitter.com/PBk9tbgogg— Prajwal shetty (@shettyprajwal_) June 8, 2021
The internet is down !! This goes for all the millennials & boomers & everyone alike. #internetdown #internetoutage #InternetShutdown pic.twitter.com/Fojp2OddbP— Biryani United !! (@happy2hog) June 8, 2021
Danger of having one or two large companies running THOUSANDS of websites and services. #InternetDown pic.twitter.com/GXYXA6t4Cd— Ethan Best (@the_ethan_best) June 8, 2021
twitter right now #internetDown pic.twitter.com/gRcNnPNEWC— Edu, (@eduWHO) June 8, 2021
Me tweeting about #internetdown from my completely fine internet right now.#InternetShutdown pic.twitter.com/2A4ErI709y— Mia (@notyaregularhoe) June 8, 2021
Aeroplane mode to me: #InternetShutdown #internetdown pic.twitter.com/KthsRPa0Td
— Ashwani (@ashawni_meena) June 8, 2021
“The internet is back on!” Me who already went back to the old ways reading newspapers:#internetdown pic.twitter.com/yyjayHvWQU— Dougiiie (@iamdougiiie) June 8, 2021
Fastly disclosed later that “the issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.” While Fastly has not offered further technical details in public, the crash may have been due to misconfiguration in certain servers that are part of the Fastly CDN network.
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