A number of websites are currently down across the Internet at news outlets, including social media platforms such as Twitch and Reddit, the Financial Times, the Guardian and the New York Times, with users seeing the error message “Error 503 service unavailable”. This is said to be due to an unknown source in the cloud services company Fastley, a cloud computing company that provides services ranging from cloud security to content delivery networks (CND). The disruption also affected official websites and shopping sites, including Amazon and PayPal, while Facebook and Twitter and messaging sites Microsoft Teams and Slack remained unchanged.
The websites of major foreign newsletters, such as the New York Times, The Guardian, CNN International, Vox and the BBC, their cloud service providers, were down, quickly, after an accident. The websites of Amazon, the UK government and Reddit were also attacked. Quickly posted on his website that they have identified this error and fixed it. “The matter has been identified and a solution has been implemented. With the return of global services, customers can feel the increased core burden, ”it said.
Most websites are up and running now. Alex Horn, UK technology editor at The Guardian, tweeted: “The Guardian has quickly discovered the failure of a content distribution network (CDN) operated by a huge Internet spread, affecting websites including http://Gov.uk, Amazon and Reddit.”
Sites showing “503 error” when trying to access. The message ‘503 service unavailable’ indicates an error response code that the server is not ready to handle the request. Common causes are a server that is down for maintenance or it is overloaded. Foreign cable websites such as Bloomberg, Reuters, the Associated Press, and even news outlets such as the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Time Magazine have not been attacked, and are doing well.About 21,000 Reddit users have reported problems with the social media platform, while Amazon has reported more than 2,000 problems. All affected websites return after a few minutes to an hour of disruption. “Quickly monitored all service recovery and resolved the incident,” the agency said this afternoon.
