{"id":1024056,"date":"2021-11-17T15:28:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1024056"},"modified":"2021-11-17T15:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:29:03","slug":"google-is-to-blame-for-tuesdays-widespread-internet-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-is-to-blame-for-tuesdays-widespread-internet-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Is to Blame for Tuesday&#039;s Widespread Internet Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-is-to-blame-for-tuesdays-widespread-internet-outage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1024056&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A massive internet outage Tuesday that took down multiple sites, including Breitbart News, appears to be the result of a global issue with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).<\/p>\n<p>ZDNet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/google-glitch-triggers-major-internet-outage\/\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that at around 12:53 p.m. EST multiple sites went down across the internet. Google reported at the time that it was facing a global issue with its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) networking at the time. Websites including Spotify, Facebook, and Breitbart News were affected by the outage.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_10881134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Google-train.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10881134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Google-train.jpg\" alt=\"Google train\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google train (Alex Wong \/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At its peak, DownDetector showed how widespread the issue was noting that online services from&nbsp;Pok\u00e9mon Go to the Home Depot website were being affected.<\/p>\n<p>Experts observed that the specific problem appeared to be with the GCP load balancers. These work alongside Google\u2019s Cloud Delivery Network (CDN) and provide high availability web servers for sites across the internet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_9334381\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GoogleChrome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9334381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GoogleChrome.jpg\" alt=\"Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, speaks at Google&#039;s annual developer conference, Google I\/O, in San Francisco on 28 June 2012\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, speaks at Google\u2019s annual developer conference, Google I\/O, in San Francisco on 28 June 2012 ( KIMIHIRO HOSHINO\/AFP\/GettyImages )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The system is designed to prevent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that attempt to send traffic to websites overloading them. However, due to the global issue Google was unable to keep the websites live.<\/p>\n<p>By 1:59 p.m. Google reported:&nbsp;\u201cThe issue with Cloud Run has been resolved for all affected users.\u201d The company added:&nbsp;\u201cWe apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.\u201d However, many users are still reporting outages across various web services.<\/p>\n<p>Google has since stated that it will be providing more information on the issue, writing:&nbsp;\u201cWe will publish an analysis of this incident, once we have completed our internal investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/google-glitch-triggers-major-internet-outage\/\">ZDNet here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i><i>or contact via secure email at the address&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#0d61786e6c7e6362616c634d7d7f62796263606c6461236e6260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"fe928b9d9f8d9091929f90be8e8c918a9190939f9792d09d9193\">[email&nbsp;protected]<\/span><\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive internet outage Tuesday that took down multiple sites, including Breitbart News, appears to be the result of a global issue with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). 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