Global internet outage hits White House website

The websites of the UK government, international media houses were down on Tuesday in a major Internet outage. The White House website also had an error message for a while but was available again later, AFP reported.

The websites of media houses like CNN, The Guardian, the Financial Times, were down on Tuesday in a major internet outage.

Messages such as “Error 503 Service Unavailable” and “connection failure” appeared on these websites. 

Down Detector, which specialises in internet access problems, said the outages were due to a massive glitch in Fastly.

Fastly is a content delivery network that helps websites speed up loading times and present their content to users. Its clients include Deliveroo, Pinterest and Shazam.