Many websites in several countries around the world, including the United States and the United Kingdom, have been temporarily shut down due to a glitch in Fastley, a US-based organization that provides technical support to millions of websites around the world.
According to Reuters, websites in other countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, were suddenly shut down on Tuesday, depriving many people of important information.
According to the report, due to a glitch in the hosting server of the American company Fastley, e-commerce and government websites including social and news websites were shut down, after which the websites started to be restored after fixing the error.
Websites like CNN and Reddit also remain closed; screenshot down detector
Initially, Fastley denied any wrongdoing after the websites were shut down, but it was immediately discovered and corrected.
American journalist Mac Taylor also said in his tweet that the hosting service provider ‘Fastley’ fixed the problem, after which the services of the websites were restored.
British government websites, including CNN, the BBC, the New York Times, NBC, The Guardian, Spotify, Google, Twitter and the United States, were shut down due to technical glitches in the hosting service.
Fastly, the CDN provider, is having a massive outage, resulting in Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit, The Guardian, and the FT returning 503 errors.https://t.co/parKGKwrSU
— Matt 'TK' Taylor (@MattieTK) June 8, 2021
Due to technical glitches, major online e-commerce websites such as Amazon were shut down, while social media websites were down in many countries.
According to the British broadcaster Sky News, websites around the world were shut down due to a possible glitch in the hosting system of the US company Fastley.
Websites that use Fastley’s hosting service are closed — screenshot
According to Sky News, Fastley confirmed that their system had malfunctioned and that work was under way to locate the fault and restore it.
The websites were shut down on Tuesday due to a glitch in Fastley’s hosting server, according to Down Detector, a worldwide Internet error monitoring website.
The website conducted an online survey of several websites in which people from all over the world said that they could not access many popular websites.
Websites such as Twitter and Spotify, including the Google service, were also suspended in some countries.
Fastley’s websites were also shut down in some countries; screenshot
After the websites were shut down, the British government also confirmed the error in its websites through tweets and apologized to the people.
A tweet from the British government’s Twitter handle confirmed that a number of government and non-government websites had been shut down due to technical glitches and users would lose access to them.
The tweet said that although the websites were closed, it was not immediately clear why the websites were closed and the matter was being investigated.