UK Government services - also went down at the same time.Affected websites displayed the message: "Error 503 Service Unavailable".Other websites affected included the online discussion platform Reddit, the Evening Standard and French newspaper Le Monde.The outage appears to have been sparked by an issue with a content delivery network (CDN), a system used to host websites and their content on the internet and serve it to users.Fastly, one of the world’s major CDNs, reported a major outage across its global network, which is believed to have caused the outage.The company offers services such as speeding up loading times for websites, protect them from denial-of-service cyberattacks and helping them deal with bursts of traffic in order to.
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