KARACHI: Major websites, including the BBC, CNN, the Financial Times, The Guardian, and the New York Times, are facing outages due to a technical fault caused by data centre provider, Fastly, according to international media reports.
Users reported receiving “Error 503 Service Unavailable” pages when attempting to log on to a number of websites. Others received a “fastly error” saying the domain of a significant website such as the BBC was “unknown”.
It is not known what has caused the outage. It is believed the outage is connected to a global CDN disruption from cloud service provider Fastly. The White House website had an error message but was available again later. The gov.uk websites remained unavailable at around 1030 GMT.
JUST IN: A mass web outage, believed to be caused by a data centre provider named Fastly, is impacting several popular websites.
Some websites affected include; Reddit, SMH, Age, NY Times, Twitch, Pinterest, The Guardian, AFR, BBC, Pinterest, and Financial Times. #9News pic.twitter.com/TEVivfFcVm
— 9News Australia (@9NewsAUS) June 8, 2021
Meanwhile, Fastly said it was investigating “the potential impact to performance with our CDN services”. Most of Fastly’s coverage areas were facing “Degraded Performance”, the website showed.
Separately, Amazon.com Inc’s retail website also seemed to be down. Nearly 21,000 Reddit users reported issues with the social media platform, while more than 2,000 users reported problems with Amazon.
