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A popular open-source content delivery network went down for hours

It’s back up now.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Many developers affected by the outage switched to jsDelivr, another open-source CDN for GitHub and the package manager npm, in order to keep their sites online. That’s when Fly.io — the service that Unpkg’s origin server uses to provide auto-scaling infrastructure — announced that it “deployed a fix” to recover affected sites.

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