Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow and news outlets the Guardian, BBC, Financial Times are currently facing an outage. Typically glitches at a vital internet infrastructure service provider prompts a wide outage of this nature.
An apparent glitch at Fastly, a popular CDN provider, is thought to be the reason, according to a product manager at Financial Times.
Fastly, the CDN provider, is having a massive outage, resulting in Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit, The Guardian, and the FT returning 503 errors.https://t.co/parKGKwrSU
— Matt 'TK' Taylor (@MattieTK) June 8, 2021
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