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Hugh	08-06-2021 11:37

Major newspaper and government websites down

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57399628

Quote:

A number of leading media websites are currently not working, including the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent and the New York Times.

The UK government website - gov.uk - is also down.

Affected websites displayed the message: "Error 503 Service Unavailable".

Early reports have suggested it could be related to Fastly, a cloud computing provider, which underpins a lot of major websites.

papa smurf

08-06-2021 11:39

Re: Major newspaper and government websites down

The express is still working ;)

Hugh	08-06-2021 11:39

Re: Major newspaper and government websites down

It did say "leading"... :D

Maggy

08-06-2021 11:57

Re: Major newspaper and government websites down

I can still get to Amazon and gove.uk and the Guardian.

nomadking

08-06-2021 12:08

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GOV.UK was inaccessible, but is now there.

jonbxx

08-06-2021 12:22

Re: Major newspaper and government websites down

Some IT engineers are having a really bad day at Fastly where this problem lies!

Hugh	08-06-2021 12:59

Re: Major newspaper and government websites down

Loved to have seen the rollback plan…

papa smurf

08-06-2021 13:05

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36082224)

Loved to have seen the rollback plan…

Emergency half days leave ;)

RichardCoulter

08-06-2021 13:09

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AIUI in the interests of 'efficiency savings', companies seem to be getting rid of or not building in back up plans/spare capacity to cut costs. All very well until a problem occurs.

When water was privatised reservoirs were sold off and I've noticed that there are more occasional power cuts too.

I suppose these things are inevitable given that the private sector is focused on profit and the public sector (in theory) is more focused on service.

Whch is the better option seems to be a bit of a gamble really.

Sephiroth

08-06-2021 14:31

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A bit of an explanation can be found at:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/08/t...tly/index.html

Paul	08-06-2021 20:40

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It was posted on the BBC a few hours ago, CDN issues.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57399628

Mad Max

09-06-2021 19:23

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36082208)

It did say "leading"... :D

:D:D

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