Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk and news outlets the Guardian, the New York Times, BBC, Financial Times are currently facing an outage. Typically glitches at a vital internet infrastructure service provider prompts a wide outage of this nature.
An apparent glitch at Fastly, a popular CDN provider, is thought to be the reason, according to a product manager at Financial Times. The status page of Fastly confirms an outage. “We’re currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” the firm said.
This is a developing story. More to follow…