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Massive global internet outage hits top news. The tech websites in a huge internet outage, many prominent websites like leading news portals on Tuesday the grid globally, including Reddit, Spotify, and more. The several popular websites including leading news portals on Tuesday took off the grid globally like Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, GitHub, Hulu, HBO Max, CNN, the Guardian, the New York Times, the BBC, the Financial Times.
The technical complication is likely to be from Fastly, a popular CDN provider and facing an outage on its status website. “Error 503 Service Unavailable,” was the statement that seemed on the affected websites.
A content delivery network (CDN) relates to a geographically distributed group of servers to provide fast delivery of Internet content. They are continuing to investigate this issue with its impact on performance with our CDN services. It was controversial if the glitch was due to a cyber-attack with websites affected were gov. uk, Quora, PayPal, Shopify.