The websites of such media and platforms as Reddit, Twitch, CNN, The New York Times, Financial Times crashed due to a malfunction of the Fastly CDN provider, the problem has already been fixed. This was announced by FT product manager Matt Taylor on Twitter.
A CDN provider is a network infrastructure that provides fast delivery of content to users of web services and sites.
“CDN provider Fastly has a major outage causing error 503 on Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit, The Guardian and FT,” Taylor wrote.
The press service of Fastly said that they found the cause of the failure, but did not disclose what it was. According to the company, at 10:57 UTC (13:57 Moscow time), it was eliminated. The failure lasted for about an hour, Fastly warned that for some time problems in the operation of resources will persist.
Sites and media outages occurred on June 8th. Crashes were recorded in the work of sites Reddit, Twitch, GitHub, HBO Max, PayPal, Vimeo, CNN, The New York Times, BBC, Financial Times. Also, Amazon and Spotify had failures, 9to5mac reported. In addition, 95% of Downdetector users have noticed problems with Reddit. The BBC reported that the website of the British government was down for a while. Downdetector also reported that Twitter and Paypal had outages.
CDN is a key part of the Internet infrastructure that is used to improve the performance and availability of web services. The most famous CDN providers besides Fastly include Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, and Akamai. The first is especially popular with media sites.
