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TECH UK government homepage knocked offline by Fastly glitch Written by  John Hewitt Jones Jun 8, 2021 | FEDSCOOP The homepage of the U.K. government was among websites affected early Tuesday by an outage at content delivery network Fastly. Gov.uk was unavailable to some users for more than an hour, along with those of major news organizations including the New York Times, Bloomberg, and the Financial Times. Content delivery networks are a key part of the global internet infrastructure and provide servers that improve the performance and availability of web services to users in different locations. Media content is often cached at a CDN server so that it doesn’t have to be fetched on the original server every time a user loads a web page. As of 9:25 am eastern time, a Fastly spokesperson said the company had identified and disabled a service configuration that triggered disruptions across local access points of its networks. “Our global network is coming back online,” said the sp...