Multiple outages hit websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, affecting news websites and social media platforms. Leading websites operated by news outlets including The Irish Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times and Bloomberg News were down. The UK government website — gov.uk — was also not working, giving the error message “Error 503 Service Unavailable”. Not all of its customers appeared to be affected and several websites restored service relatively quickly. Rather than hosting all website content on a single set of servers in one location, Fastly puts cloud infrastructure in dozens of locations to let people download from a server closest to them.

Source: The Irish Times June 08, 2021 10:41 UTC