some of the biggest websites in the
world stop
working on tuesday including the new
york times
bloomberg the financial times the bbc
reddit and many more the reason that all
of these websites went offline
is because a us cloud computing services
provider
known as fastly had a technical glitch
so
what is fastly well fastly is a
content delivery network or a content
distribution network
this isn't the first time that a cdn has
gone down in the way that it did today
you know this has happened multiple
times over the years
um cloudflare is a company you may have
heard of they had a big problem last
year and in 2019
as well amazon has also had its own
issues with its amazon web services
company
and some people are now saying that you
know there are
big big parts of the internet in the
hands of an increasingly small
number of companies and and maybe this
needs to change