FASTLY BLAMES ISSUES ON CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK (CDN)
On its “service status” page, which had at times been offline itself, Fastly said that the issue was with its CDN, or content delivery network.
That is a set of servers distributed across the world that serve up the content that make up websites, with the aim of ensuring that data is sent as quickly as possible.
The importance of such technology to the functioning of the internet also means, however, that any issues with CDNs can immediately send websites offline.
Fastly said that it is “currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services”. Two further updates posted since only made clear that the company is “continuing to investigate this issue”.
