steam down Steam and playstation down

[G_K]

Summary

 

Sony’s Playstation Network and Valve’s PC game storefront Steam have both gone down simultaneously.

 

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Users are unable to play or purchase games online

 

My thoughts

Its been a while that steam has gone down, just another day loading up a game and wanting to access the mod workshop to download maps for the game and steam is down in the most sections, trying the online steam store not the app and DNS error, i ask my poeple in a discord group and there having the same issues,  media starting to report steam,

 

Sources

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/playstation-down-steam-not-working-b1888824.html

[da na]

Hmm. I wouldn't be surprised if both services use the same backend servers though.

[MrEleventy]

Looks like a backend issue? Lots of sites are lighting up on Downdetector. LastPass, FedEx, etc.

[porina]

Steam is working for me right now.

 

I saw a friend post they couldn't get on PSN so that might still be ongoing.

[Treble Sketch]

Looking at this unofficial status page, looks like it's another one of those DNS issues. Found out the issue when I tried to log into Epic Games Store ironically, the log-in for EGS won't let me log in no matter what I did. Endless loading bar instead of the "log in" button

 

https://steamstat.us/

 

Indeicent/Status page for the issue:

https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/incidents/n5zl6dythvfv

[Mark Kaine]

kinda confusing seems only website and store is down. fl and games are up for me…

[Forbidden Wafer]

It is back.

[AlTech]

5 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

kinda confusing seems only website and store is down. fl and games are up for me…

Yeah. Same here

[The_russian]

While Steam and PSN being down were more noticeable for this audience, looks like that was a relatively minor problem since other sites like Ally (the online bank), Fidelity, airlines Delta, Southwest, and British Airways were having problems as well. Looks like Akamai, one of the largest CDNs, was having issues. When multiple sites that are completely unrelated are having issues, it’s often a major CDN having problems.

 

Source: 

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/22/22588837/internet-outage-psn-steam-banks-trading-gaming-more-911-systems

[Forbidden Wafer]

3 minutes ago, The_russian said:

When multiple sites that are completely unrelated are having issues, it’s often a major CDN having problems.

a.k.a. take down cloudfront, akamai and fastly and you probably disrupt 80% of services.

I still remember the OG shitstorm from AWS. 5h outage and Amazon couldn't even fix the issue cause the main datacenter died and the remote control stuff relied on it.
https://www.theregister.com/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/

[G_K]

Summary

Many popular websites fell offline on thursday in a widespread global outage of service Visitors attempting to reach some sites received DNS errors, meaning their requests could not reach the websites. Affected services included Airbnb, UPS, HSBC bank, British Airways and the PlayStation network used for online games.

 

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Major websites hit by global outage

 

My thoughts

They really need to think about a backup servers to use, same services on 2 different servers sites, one goes down, the other kicks in, stops a worldwide outage

 

Sources

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57929544

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DDSt8USPZg

 

[da na]

I'm assuming this was the same outage that hit the Steam store?

Edit: I posted this before the thread was merged with another, yes it was

[G_K]

6 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

I'm assuming this was the same outage that hit the Steam store?

Yes,  the steam store was included in this outage -

Disruptions often mean that a web browser cannot find the content it is looking for.

Other affected services reported by DownDetector included:

• Banks such as Barclays, Lloyds, TSB, and Halifax
• Gaming services including Steam, Call of Duty, and EA
• Streaming services on Channel 4 and ITV

[TetraSky]

9 minutes ago, Uknown0002 said:

They really need to think about a backup servers to use, same services on 2 different servers sites, one goes down, the other kicks in, stops a worldwide outage

But then, they will need twice the infrastructure for it.

[G_K]

1 minute ago, TetraSky said:

But then, they will need twice the infrastructure for it.

true, but it would solve the problem (ish, sort of, maybe, lol)

[TetraSky]

3 minutes ago, Uknown0002 said:

true, but it would solve the problem (ish, sort of, maybe, lol)

It might, until both are hit are the same time because they both have the same vulnerabilities. Even more so if they are hosted in the same space for convenience. 

It would be better if all these big players just worked together to create a giant global mesh network, where if one goes down, the others pick up the slack. Near impossible to bring down anything at that point since you'd have to bring down the entire internet.

[BondiBlue]

Didn't you already post this earlier? 

 

I don't see how this is major news. Sure, some sites were affected for a bit, but this isn't something that's never happened before. 

[G_K]

1 minute ago, BondiBlue said:

Didn't you already post this earlier? 

 

I don't see how this is major news. Sure, some sites were affected for a bit, but this isn't something that's never happened before. 

No, i posted about 'steam only', then a couple hours later it turns out its not just steam, its most websites and business

 

[Mark Kaine]

Little taste of what happens when we (inevitably) get hit by a massive sun EMP/ CME

[GDRRiley]

==merged threads

[BabaGanuche]

1 hour ago, TetraSky said:

It might, until both are hit are the same time because they both have the same vulnerabilities. Even more so if they are hosted in the same space for convenience. 

It would be better if all these big players just worked together to create a giant global mesh network, where if one goes down, the others pick up the slack. Near impossible to bring down anything at that point since you'd have to bring down the entire internet.

You do realize you just described the internet as it currently exists, right. 

[ravenshrike]

Odd thing is that it never went down for me. Wonder if it's because I'm not using my ISP's DNS.