How Fastly Failed And Why It Is Nothing New SEATTLE (dpa-AFX) - On Tuesday, one of the top dogs of CDN services suffered from a 49-minute outage, and as a result, multiple leading websites which it serves were out of operation. While the company was able to identify the 'bug' in the system immediately, the issue posed potent questions about how the most important service in the world is regulated by a small number of behind-the-screen players. Fastly Inc. (FSLY) is a content delivery network (CDN) that is responsible for the timely uploading of content from major news portals and other services, including the British Government official website, faster across the world. Some other major clients of the service include the New York Times, the Guardian, Shopify, Pinterest, Etsy, Twitch, Reddit, Buzzfeed, and many more leaders of the internet. The company distributes the content through a complex network of mirror servers to 26 countries.