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Oddly their homepage rendering an error was a more accurate description of the problem than "investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN"

Stuff is down across the web, but the most it says is “degraded performance” and in my area it’s all green even though the sites are still down.

All looks orange now, but "degraded performance" is a cheeky way to describe "everything is on fire".

> Fastly’s network has built-in redundancies and automatic failover routing to ensure optimal performance and uptime. But when a network issue does arise, we think our customers deserve clear, transparent communication so they can maintain trust in our service and our team.

What a joke!

I didn’t see any error whatsoever on their homepage, while now I see “Global CDN Disruption” on their status page.

This is the link you want I think https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

Because even their homepage is down intermittently/for some people.

To save everyone else hitting the site as well:

As of 10:44UTC, this status page has just updated to say the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

it is starting to show several Degraded Performance tags