Earlier on Tuesday , the internet crashed causing many global websites such as amazon, reddit , guardian , New york Times , twitch and more websites to shut down. Quora was also down for users in India, though it appears to be back now.
Other sites impacted were stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk , Hulu, HBO Max, PayPal, Vimeo and Shopify , according to Engadget. In a detailed thread on Twitter, the Guardian’s UK technology correspondent Alex Hern wrote that the “massive internet outage” has been traced to a failure in a content delivery network(CDN) run by Fastly .
His thread also notes that the outage , which began shortly before 11am UK times, saw visitors to a vast array of sites receive error messages including “Error 503 service Unavailable” and a terse “connection failure”. When we tried accessing CNN, we also got the 503 error. Fastly has currently reported that a potential investigation is done with their CDN service.
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