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I think fastly (fastly.com) is having an outage right now

Even amazon.com is broken for me right now. I would expect them to use Cloudfront for their own stuff, but m.media-amazon.com is on Fastly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432408

GitHub assets also failing, eg https://github.githubassets.com/assets/webgl-globe-8bbbb3d9.... and avatars

I think this is a problem with fastly.com

edit: Their status page now shows degraded performance: https://status.fastly.com

Even when the internet is down, HN is still up

I believe you're making a joke, but just in case you're serious, rest assured the Internet is doing just fine and is far from "down". Nobody can shut down the Internet.

Here it's just a single network/server operator experiencing problems. If this operator happened to be me, we wouldn't even be talking about it. But it appears it's a well-known CDN that many other service providers rely on because of a really obscure reason.

When they moved to the "cloud" they didn't (or didn't want to) realize it was just someone else's computer. When you own all of your infrastructure, you usually have a much better uptime than all these fancy cloud services with unscheduled downtimes and beyond-explanation "works from here, doesnt from there" kind of experience.

Hell, even a lowcost server from OVH has better uptime and experience than these cloud companies... at least until a fire comes along ;) Please convince all people you know we need to keep the Internet decentralized. Fuck cloud companies, let's own our own parts of the Internet!

>but just in case you're serious

They're not.

Looks like fastly... slowed down!

...I'll see myself out.

Building distributed systems, geo-redundant and whatnot - just to make some external service your SPoF?

sigh

Yes, that's the morale of the story. The cloud was always just someone else's computer, not magic drops of information floating across the air.

I wonder if there's already a website dedicated to listing such outages and all the websites affected.

Reddit is fine for me.

But a bunch of other sites unrelated are not working.

All of them returning a cache vanish error.

Pitchfork.com is down too

Fastly error: unknown domain: pitchfork.com.

Details: cache-osl6535-OSL

Same problem on a bunch of websites, even those on HN's frontpage. All feature a varnish cache Guru Meditation Error. Some kind of global CDN is down I guess

Twitter isn't loading user profile pictures for me

I'm seeing this on multiple sites (reddit, GitHub assets):

--- Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable

Guru Mediation: Details: cache-xxxxx

Varnish cache server ---

Seems to be affecting multiple services.

Can confirm this. Can't access reddit from both the web and through API powered indie app on Android.

Most likely a fastly issue as other commenters mentioned.

I'm hackintoshing my laptop and fuck, I can't get information to fix my problem

I miss you superuser.com, reddit.com and stackoverflow.com

Even amazon.com homepage has no CSS right now!

Wtf, can't use stackoverflow, Github, Reddit and I can't compile my spring boot project!!!

As i computer i find your trust in technology amusing.

What do they all have in common? Reddit, Github, Imgur, and Stackoverflow?

They all seems to be using fastly.com

Can't use reddit or imgur on browser in any capacity

The Guardian's website is also affected.

Looks like imgur is also effected, EC2 issue?

What do they all have in common?

Apparently fastly.com

Same problem on StackOverflow

Also Adobe. I wonder what they all in common?

GitHub is having some issues too

and theguardian.com + bloomberg.com

gitlab.com is down as well.

apache repos are not working tho

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