Fastly CDN Server Issue Brings Down Swathes of Websites [Update: Solved]

Tuesday June 8, 2021 3:34 am PDT

Tim Hardwick

Vast swathes of the web are currently offline, including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify, CNN,

The Guardian

The New York Times

BBC News

Bloomberg

, and

Financial Times

sites.

The outage is down to a glitch in content delivery network provider Fastly's servers. Fastly has

confirmed

it's investigating an outage on its status website. Having nothing to do with Fastly,

none of Apple's services are currently impacted

. MacRumors.com and the MacRumors forums continue to operate as normal.

Update:

After identifying the issue, Fastly says it has implemented a fix that seems to be allowing most affected websites to recover from the outage.

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https://stackoverflow.com also down, largest global coffee break..

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9 weeks ago

Phew. I thought my Mac wasn't working. Rebooted it twice.MacRumors bang on with the essential news once again.

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Why is everyone using Fastly "only", there has to be a backup.Edit: their own site is even down ... https://www.fastly.com/

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