Websites for the UK government and numerous media outlets were down for about an hour SEAN GLADWELL/Getty Images
Dozens of major websites, including 麻豆传媒, were offline for around an hour on Tuesday morning in a widespread outage linked to a leading internet content delivery service.
US firm Fastly, a content delivery network (CDN) that helps websites speed up loading times and present their content to users, confirmed at 10.58 am BST it was looking into an issue that had a 鈥減otential impact to performance with our CDN services鈥.
The issue appeared to be resolved just before 12 noon UK time. 鈥淭he issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return,鈥 Fastly said on its service status web page.
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The UK government鈥檚 website and the online discussion platform Reddit were among those that returned 鈥淓rror 503鈥 messages during the outage. Numerous media outlets were also affected, including The Guardian, Financial Times, The Independent and The New York Times.
A number of the affected websites reported that the issue was linked to Fastly. Alex Hern, The Guardian鈥檚 technology editor, tweeted that Fastly 鈥渉as been identified as the cause of the problem鈥. Quartz also attributed the issue to Fastly in a Twitter post.
Fastly offers services such as speeding up loading times for websites, protecting them from denial-of-service cyberattacks and helping them deal with bursts of traffic in order to stay online and stable.
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