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Erring on the side of error messages

@bazzacollins

On the morning of 8 June, a good chunk of the internet decided to take a little nap. The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Verge, Forbes, PayPal, Vimeo, HBO Max and plenty of others were all knocked offline.

The first I became aware of a problem was when I went to visit The Verge and was confronted by a rather odd error message:

Error 503

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