The US CDN provider, collapsed in your services affecting to several of its clients such as Twitch, Reddit, Twitter, Movistar, Nytimes.com, CNN, the British Government website, Paypal, Financial Times, The Guardian, HBO, Movistar, Pinterest, and Spanish media such as Marca, As , The World and The Newspaper.
The problem was fixed relatively quickly. Just a few minutes ago the company tweeted the following: “We identified a service setting that caused disruptions to our POPs globally and we have disabled that setting. Our global network is back online. Continuous state is available in the next “.
We identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions across our POPs globally and have disabled that configuration. Our global network is coming back online. Continued status is available at
— Fastly (@fastly)
The failure was detected around noon and at first the company did not know what the causes were. The Fastly’s status page confirmed an interruption in its services ensuring that the problem was already in the repair phase. “We are currently investigating the potential impact on the performance of our CDN services”could be read on the web.
CDN is the acronym for Content Delivery Network (content distribution networks), which is basically a cloud information hosting service. Fastly hosts content from all the companies listed above and many more to speed up page load times and prevent spikes for many of the big internet services. A failure in the system causes catastrophes like the one experienced todaysomething that is very strange and that will clearly affect the reputation of the company.
How could it be otherwise, the speed and mischief of the most attentive delighted us with very funny answers on the networks:
— Karthick Selvam (@kartick_ns)
Fastly knows the pain.
— Nafis Faysal (@dotnafis)
“a service configuration”
— Bob Anderson (@rwa_)
— Javi Diaz (@snaketweet87)
— Karthick Selvam (@kartick_ns)
Others took pity or were more serious sharing the informative updates in the different media.
About Fastly
Created in March 2011, this North American company based in San Francisco is a provider of cloud computing services listed on the New York Stock Exchange and has a workforce of more than 1,000 employees.
Its main function is to optimize the operation of web pages, offer content distribution networks and -what irony- provide computer security services.
As it says in its , the services it offers “allow faster application and site delivery, higher-quality video delivery, and real-time visibility with an agile, API-first platform.” He also mentions DDoS, next-generation WAF, and TLS products, which “provide organizations protection and control, without sacrificing performance or speed.”
Prices are not available, but you can request a free one. Its clients include companies such as Paradox Interactive, PRISA, RCS MediaGroup and ZEIT ONLINE, The New York Times, Amazon, Twitch, Vimeo, Reddit, Shopify, CNN, Deliveroo, Shazam, Paypal, Financial Times, The Guardian, HBO, Movistar , El Mundo, El Periódico, among many others.
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