Media sites stop working around the world

At Fastly’s headquarters, located in San Francisco, they recognized the problem after 7 and they assured that they were in full investigation of what had happened. However, a few minutes later, they ensured that the problem was identified and that it was being resolved, although They still haven’t revealed the reason for their server outages.

At around 8 a.m. they reported that the error has been resolved, although they noticed the possibility that customers will experience a longer load time until services are fully returned.

The large number of businesses that depend on Content Delivery Network (CDN) caused the massive decline in Internet services.

For example, UK government website, www.gov.uk, which encompasses the various departments of the UK executive and allows official procedures to be carried out, gave an error message indicating that it was not available. While trying to view the White House page a message appeared saying that the portal “was not working”.

The site specializing in the detection of failures of this type, Stocking detector, said there had been “a major outage at Fastly,” a US IT service provider.

Similar problems were encountered by major media pages, such as Le Monde, The Guardian, Financial Times or El Mundo, as well as the Reddit platform. When typing, messages appeared indicating that the service was not available or that there was a connection error.

Finally, Quickly is a web hosting company that operates as a content delivery network. Thanks to a complex computer network reduces the delivery times of the content, hosting parts of certain websites, which consist of images, links, apps and other elements. In this way, it lightens the load on the other servers and increases the download speed.