(Reuters) -Thousands of government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online on Tuesday after getting hit by a widespread hour-long outage linked to U.S.-based cloud company Fastly Inc. High-traffic sites including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, Paypal, Spotify, Al Jazeera Media Network and the New York Times went down, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. They came back after outages that ranged from a few minutes to around an hour. “Our global network is coming back online,” Fastly said. One of the world’s most widely-used cloud-based content delivery network providers, the company earlier reported a disruption from a “service configuration” and did not explain. “Incidents like this underline the fragility of the internet and its dependence on a patchwork of fragmented technology. Ironically, this also underlines its inherent strength and how quickly it can recover,” Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight said. “The fact that an outage like this can grab headlines around the world shows how rare it is.” Typical service configurations for a cloud service provider can include updating security rules to protect information, or instructing a server to refresh the contents of a news site before serving it to a customer, said Andy Champagne, senior vice president at Akamai, a cloud service company. A simple typo can be propagated to thousands of servers and cause disruptions, he said. Fastly, which went public in 2019 and has a market capitalization of under $6 billion, is far smaller than peers like Amazon’s AWS. The company’s content delivery network (CDN) helps websites move content using less-congested routes, enabling them to reach consumers faster. Nick Note: as a point in fact i lost many of my news feeds delivered by IP. But i have redundant satellite direct feeds that are RF and all as in all of them were still working. Like i tell my kinds triple redundancy is the order of the day. And i am proud to announce NONE and in not one of our web sights was affected,,,, Why we do not use the fucking cloud and we sure as shit are not letting any of these new age assholes get in the middle of our delivery….. Remember the head in is in my office and the fiber satellite internet is in my living room where i control the horizontal and the vertical……….