Numerous well-known websites could not be reached at all or only poorly on working morning. The New York Times, the British BBC, CNN and British government websites were among those affected.
The Amazon streaming platform Twitch and the online forum Reddit could not be accessed either.
The cause was a malfunction at the cloud provider Fastly, which operates many large websites, including Spotify, PayPal and Reddit. In the meantime, the provider has confirmed the malfunction. The error has been fixed since 12:57 p.m. German time. That’s Fastly on one Status page an.
Anyone who tried to access one of the affected websites only received an error message: “Error 503 Service Unavailable”. In German: Error 503 Service not available.
German Internet node is running “perfectly”
However, there was no fundamental problem with the Internet: At the request of BILD, it was stated that all the systems at the largest German Internet hub in Frankfurt am Main were running “perfectly”.
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