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The status page of Fastly confirms an outage. “We’re currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” the company said. Major news websites are scrambling to restore their services after their websites went offline, reports Ben Woods.

Users of The New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times and social media platform Reddit were hit by error messages when trying to gain access to the websites.

Attempts to access The New York Times and the FT's websites have been met with a white screen and a "Error 503 service unavailable" statement.

Lanark wrote:You would think some of these big companies could afford to setup their own server!

in particular the UK govt, who I know have spent millions setting up data centres in bomb proof underground shelters. Why arent they using those?