On: One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown

[ic4l]

Even if they fixed it in 20 minutes the chain reaction caused by Fastly being down took much more than 20 minutes to resolve itself.

An example is imgix:

https://status.imgix.com

It took them 11 hours to recover from Fastly going down for their claimed 40 minutes.

[busymom0 → ic4l]

> We are still seeing increased origin load as a result of the earlier outage from our service provider.

Does this mean that some companies using Fastly could have major costs because of the increased origin load?

[axlee → busymom0]

Absolutely.