From Auntie Beeb:
They were also reporting that the sites of the New York Times, Guardian, and Financial Times were offline. Quite the story it seems, even if it only lasts for a short amount of time?
-Peter
EDIT: The BBC News article is updating as time goes on, and this has just been added:
Websites begin to work again after major breakage
Cloud computing provider Fastly, which was behind the problems, said it was implementing a fix.
www.bbc.co.uk
BBC News said:A number of leading websites are currently not working, including Amazon, Reddit and Twitch.
The UK government website - gov.uk - is also down as is parts of the BBC and a host of other media outlets.
Affected websites displayed the message: "Error 503 Service Unavailable".
Early reports suggested it could be related to Fastly, a cloud computing provider, which underpins a lot of major websites.
Fastly said it was investigating problems with its content delivery network.
They were also reporting that the sites of the New York Times, Guardian, and Financial Times were offline. Quite the story it seems, even if it only lasts for a short amount of time?
-Peter
EDIT: The BBC News article is updating as time goes on, and this has just been added:
www.gov.uk is working for me now - the problem may have been sorted?In an error message posted just before 11am BST Fastly said it was "currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services."
It has not yet provided a formal statement.