The day the internet broke...

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Hundreds of websites around the world went down this morning including CNN, The New York Times, Amazon, Shopify, PayPal, Reddit, the White House and British Government websites after a 'service configuration' at their server provider Fastly triggered mass outages. It's unclear what the configuration was or whether or not Fastly intended for it to happen but it took three hours for it to be resolved, during which time government websites, media outlets and online shopping sites experienced huge problems.  

The company won't say what the configuration is, or if they deliberately initiated it. 

People were unable to book COVID-19 vaccines in the UK because of the outage and some news sites were also unable to publish. The Verge started publishing on a live Google doc instead. The Guardian's tech editor tweeted  its content for the duration of their outage. 

Fastly is a CDN (Content Distribution Network) which services businesses by letting them use its global network of servers for their own websites. The CDN increases internet loading speeds and it also offers cheaper bandwidth but it's all run on one network. 

If that network is compromised, like it was this morning, it can prevent those companies from operating on the net at all. Cyber security experts are already saying that a hack can't be ruled out. 

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