Is anyone here getting this 503 error?

Big outage all over the place.
https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/somers/news/massive-internet-outage-hundreds-of-news-streaming-services-social-media-sites-go-down/810428/

The Internet broke about four hours ago. They patched it up with Sellotape and string but it’s holding.

Basically, those sites were using a server provider named Fastly, and it crashed.

Here’s the tech on the crash: https://www.cnet.com/news/fastly-outage-how-and-why-it-just-broke-amazon-reddit-paypal-twitch-and-much-of-the-internet/

This might not apply to Fastly, but some companies don’t have enough equipment redundancy.

E.g., some providers have simplex-processor servers. In those cases, if the main processor fails, then whatever is served by that server, will be offline until that processor is restored to service.

At AT&T, almost all of their critical processing equipment was duplex (redundant). If one processor failed, in most cases, our servers kept running on the other processor.

“Basically, those sites were using a server provider named Fastly, and it crashed.”

Should be: ...using a server named Fastly….

“If one processor failed, in most cases, our servers kept running on the other processor.”

Should be: ...their main frames would continue running on the other processor.

Yeah @Brian1946. I was really scared when I saw so many websites crashed all at once. I thought it was some kind of big hacker scheme :(

@Mimishu1995
I received an email the other day from my older brother to go onto Reddit.
I refused.
I wonder now if many others were emailing to friends and thus crashed the system?