and yet you're able to leave this comment.

Because HN and those who use less or those who use backup services are smart and those who are caught now have to panic and wait.

Probably going to short the hell out of $FSLY.

Over one issue that highlights they have an abundance of top level customers? Interesting strategy when it's already at a low.

One issue that should have been mitigated at least by Fastly; worse if the client has to do it.

They proudly stated this from their own website to their customers:

> "Fastly’s network has built-in redundancies and automatic failover routing to ensure optimal performance and uptime."

If that isn't one huge lie, I don't know what is.

Please don't call it a lie. It means that they knowingly presented something they knew to be false as the truth. So far I have seen no evidence to support that.

It is definitely a lie, but it's the same lie sold by all cloud offerings. Can you name a single cloud/CDN operator without downtimes?

It's normal to have downtimes but they are usually scheduled and quick (think <10 minutes per month for rebooting and/or hardware parts replacement). I'm pretty sure most non-profit hosts like disroot.org or globenet.org have similar or better 9's than all these fancy cloud services.

It can have all these things and still fail, suggesting otherwise would be fairly naive.

if by "everything" you mean one thing, and by "centralize" you mean not centralized, then sure.

How is having a large chunk of the internet using the same CDN provider not "centralizing"? It's not a hard monopoly obviously but still it meets the definition of centralization.

how is private companies choosing to use a common supplier in a competitive market centralization? monopolies are not centralization either. you need to read a better book.

How is a market competitive when there's a quasi-monopoly on infrastructure? When public money is used to irrigate the same corporations with huge $$$, while non-profit network operators are left to rot?

it's centralization because they all use the same provider. Why do you care about incentives here? The result is the same, just like capitalism and free market tend to monopolies in the long run.