The outage in the cloud company shut down several large websites for an hour

(PTI) New Delhi, Dt

In India, on Tuesday, the opening page of a large and popular foreign website, such as BBC News, Reddit, and the New York Times, and the UK government's homepage, began to feature 'Error 203 Service Unavailable'. A number of large websites were shut down due to technical glitches in cloud service company Fastley. Users had to deal with this problem for about an hour. This problem affected some sections of Twitter and many other websites. However, after about an hour most of the websites were restarted.

The problem occurred at 11 a.m. local time on Tuesday. All of a sudden, 'Error 303 Service Unavailable' started appearing on the opening page of a large and popular foreign website all over the world, including India. Many major websites, including BBC News, Financial Times, The Guardian, Yahoo, Spotify, Reddit, New York Times, could not be accessed. There was a stir on social media when so many big and famous websites went down together.

Going to these websites, you could see 'Error 303'. This error means the server is down. The San Francisco-based Fastley Company confirmed the problem and posted frequent updates on its website. The company said it was investigating the problem. About an hour later, the company said, the problem of server downtime has been identified and is being addressed. The resumption of global services could increase the traffic load on websites. However, the exact reason behind this could not be ascertained.

According to Down Detector, which tracks Internet outages, Fastley's extensive session outages are likely to have an impact on other websites. The company provides cloud computing services to a number of high-profile websites. Cloud computing service provider Fastly works on 'Edge Cloud', which is responsible for speeding up the loading time of websites. Fastley is also responsible for controlling traffic to websites. CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. The job of the server's network is to provide content. This server handles the worldwide web content delivery process. The job of a CDN is to reduce the time it takes for a web page to receive a request from opening a browser. The company allows users to store or 'catch' content on their own servers so that they can quickly open websites instead of accessing the original servers of various websites.