Huge parts of internet currently offline - 8th June 2021

[editor]

BBC says:

A number of leading websites are currently not working, including Amazon, Reddit and Twitch.
The UK government website - gov.uk - is also down as are the Financial Times, the Guardian and the New York Times.
Affected websites displayed the message: "Error 503 Service Unavailable".
Early reports suggested it could be related to Fastly, a cloud computing provider, which underpins a lot of major websites.
Fastly said it was looking into problems with its global content delivery network (CDN).
In an error message posted just before 11am BST Fastly said it was "currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services."
It has not yet provided a formal statement.

I noticed quite a few embeds on here were showing errors too.

 

[Steel Icarus]

And yet all my work systems are hunky dory :/

 

[Miss-Shelf]

My work systems are not. It's taking hours to do usually very quick uploads. Against a 4pm deadline today. Frustrating

 

[planetgeli]

Some informative posts in this thread.

Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

It's true, though. Lads in Ireland isn't seen as derogatory or dismissive towards women. It's certainly not meant to be and pretty much all my women mates use it. Same here, any/everyone I know, from young to old use it.

www.urban75.net

 

[killer b]

seems to be fixed now I think? certainly some of the affected sites are back

 

[planetgeli]

Massive internet outage hits websites including Amazon, gov.uk and Guardian

Technical problem traced to network run by Fastly brings some sites down entirely

www.theguardian.com

Not only back up and running but with headline news about the incident.

Not that I'd bother reading that if I were you. It makes note early on the vital news that this outage affected emojis on Twitter.

 

[Pickman's model]

this outage affected emojis on Twitter.

 

[Pickman's model]

My work systems are not. It's taking hours to do usually very quick uploads. Against a 4pm deadline today. Frustrating

we've got it the other way round, it's really quick where it should be slow. this is going to affect my managers' attitudes in the months to come

i can hear it now, "but the last time you ran this report it took five minutes"

 

[Raheem]

It makes note early on the vital news that this outage affected emojis on Twitter.

I'm so angry I can't express it.

 

[editor]

I'm so angry I can't express it.

First they came for....

 

[Raheem]

...the emojis. And I did speak out, but the impact wasn't the same.

 

[gentlegreen]

Hasbean's site was hanging this morning - the bells and whistles must depend on stuff elsewhere ...

 

[Supine]

Not a great day to work at Fastly

 

[Chilli.s]

It's the young'uns trying to book vaccines, they're used to the online booking thing and have all sorts of devious page refresh things that they understand far far more than me. Broken the internet.

 

[elbows]

 

[spitfire]

Some informative posts in this thread.

Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

It's true, though. Lads in Ireland isn't seen as derogatory or dismissive towards women. It's certainly not meant to be and pretty much all my women mates use it. Same here, any/everyone I know, from young to old use it.

www.urban75.net

I went to look and they were not informative at all. You hoodwinked me.