Internet Outage Hits Major Websites

Jun 09, 2021

On Tuesday, multiple outages hit websites all over the globe. From news portals to social networking sites some major websites like Reddit and Amazon were down. Netizens were not able to access these platforms, raising alarm on Twitter, and soon enough this created a buzz online.

Some websites operated by News Portals, including the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, CNN, were down. Famous platforms like Twitch, Spotify, Hulu, HBO Max, and Pinterest also saw impacts. People were welcomed with “Error 503 Service Una

We identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions across our POPs globally and have disabled that configuration. Our global network is coming back online. Continued status is available at https://t.co/RIQWX0LWwl
— Fastly (@fastly) June 8, 2021

As per reports, cloud computing provider Fastly, which underpins a lot of major websites, said it was behind the outage. The firm said there were issues with its global content delivery network (CDN) and was implementing a fix. Websites began to restore, after around an hour of downtime.

Like always this sudden outage sparked memes and jokes online. #InternetShutdown, #InternetDown and #Error503 was trending on Twitter.

Funny how the internet goes down on the eve of #Loki ???? god of mischief playing games?? #InternetShutdown pic.twitter.com/mraE7JXI8N
— natalie (@natIou) June 8, 2021

oh no Cuthbert #InternetShutdown pic.twitter.com/cVaS0S8nZJ
— Media Molecule (@mediamolecule) June 8, 2021

We can confirm that the #InternetShutdown has not been caused by squirrels nibbling through the main "Internet Wire" pic.twitter.com/zBZPZ0SNku
— Keele University (@KeeleUniversity) June 8, 2021

Guess it's time to Have A Break ???????? #InternetShutdown
— KITKAT (@KITKAT) June 8, 2021

How it feels to Tweet when the internet is down. #InternetShutdown #internetoutage #internetdown pic.twitter.com/pr9WwL7qof
— Uddalak Das (@ninja_writer21) June 8, 2021

South Park predicted it, kinda. #InternetDown pic.twitter.com/qb92TSgGml
— ???????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? (@PaulMcGarraghy) June 8, 2021

Sorry, my mom picked up the phone #internetdown pic.twitter.com/h4egUqrFdO
— ????? (@EigenLenk) June 8, 2021

Live footage as the techies at Fastly try to fix The Internet...#outage #InternetDown #InternetShutdown pic.twitter.com/QWu337PR50
— Division Order (@divisionorderuk) June 8, 2021

Right. Who let Jen near the internet? #InternetShutdown pic.twitter.com/nsHWQmgJ1O
— ZX Spectrum Guide (@zxspectrumguide) June 8, 2021

#InternetShutdown we are all gonna die pic.twitter.com/ruMx6mZPeX
— Evil batman (part time only for the mo) (@clsyoshimoo) June 8, 2021

#internetdown #InternetShutdown

Meanwhile youTubers streamers and socialmedia influencers be like :-- pic.twitter.com/tmrUTZ9M3t
— Debanshi Biswas (@BiswasDebanshi) June 8, 2021