: Explained: Why so many websites went down across the world on Tuesday #IndiaNEWS If you were having difficulty accessing your favourite website on Tuesday afternoon in India, you’re not alone. A

Explained: Why so many websites went down across the world on Tuesday #IndiaNEWS
If you were having difficulty accessing your favourite website on Tuesday afternoon in India, you’re not alone. A jaw-dropping number of major websites around the globe suddenly became unavailable with no immediately obvious explanation – before reappearing an hour later.It’s disconcerting when the sites we rely on suddenly become inaccessible, and even more so when it happens on such a vast scale. This outage saw seemingly unrelated sites go dark, including the BBC, Pinterest, the Financial Times, Reddit and even The Conversation.List of websites affected here ????Updating - and @MetroUK is not having issues t.co/K5T5SMrWoe— Sian Elvin (@SianElvin) June 8, 2021 How can so many sites, from so many different organisations, all be affected by the same incident? To understand the answer, you need to know what a CDN or content delivery network is and how crucial they are to the smooth running of the internet.What happened and what’s a CDN?While it’s too early to provide a comprehensive diagnosis of the incident, the internet (once it was accessible again) quickly pointed to the culprit: Fastly. it looks like Fastly is having a catastrophic outage right now t.co/T2ZLzCUVlF— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 8, 2021 Fastly is a cloud computing company that provides CDN services to a range of websites including Amazon and Deliveroo. But how can a single company bring down a noticeable proportion of...Read more

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