Fastly, the cloud-computing company responsible for the issues, said the bug had been triggered when one of its customers had changed their settings.
Fastly senior engineering executive Nick Rockwell said: "This outage was broad and severe - and we're truly sorry for the impact to our customers and everyone who relies on them."
But a customer quite legitimately changing their settings had exposed a bug in a software update issued to customers in mid-May, causing "85% of our network to return errors", it said.
The headline accurately portrays the story given the limit on headlines.
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Fastly, the cloud-computing company responsible for the issues, said the bug had been triggered when one of its customers had changed their settings.
Fastly senior engineering executive Nick Rockwell said: "This outage was broad and severe - and we're truly sorry for the impact to our customers and everyone who relies on them."
But a customer quite legitimately changing their settings had exposed a bug in a software update issued to customers in mid-May, causing "85% of our network to return errors", it said.
The headline accurately portrays the story given the limit on headlines.