Because HN and those who use less or those who use backup services are smart and those who are caught now have to panic and wait.
Probably going to short the hell out of $FSLY.
Probably going to short the hell out of $FSLY.
They proudly stated this from their own website to their customers:
> "Fastly’s network has built-in redundancies and automatic failover routing to ensure optimal performance and uptime."
If that isn't one huge lie, I don't know what is.
It's normal to have downtimes but they are usually scheduled and quick (think <10 minutes per month for rebooting and/or hardware parts replacement). I'm pretty sure most non-profit hosts like disroot.org or globenet.org have similar or better 9's than all these fancy cloud services.