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Cloud service company Fastly has confirmed a technical difficulty, fixed the issues with its CDN and the websites affected are back online.
Several websites including the government’s home page had experienced interruptions and gone offline earlier on Tuesday in what seems like a broad outage at Fastly.
Visitors got different error messages while trying to access affected websites like New York Times, CNN, Twitch, Amazon and Reddit. Some got a message that said: “Fastly error: unknown domain:..”.
Others got the error message: “Error 503 Service Unavailable”- “Varnish cache server”.
“The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied,” Fastly explains. “Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.”
The company further said it was investigating the issue.
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Fastly is an “edge cloud platform” as it describes itself. Its services encompass the provision of vital behind-the-scenes cloud computing services and caching content in servers around the world so that it’s closer to users.
Its customers are some of the high profile site on the web and the issue had hit most these sites.
Most of the websites handled by Fastly are now back online.
