Irish Examiner view: Internet services need to be reliable

The internet has become such a dominant part of our lives that it is essential that access to it can be relied on.

The response by the company behind a major global internet outage this week is both encouraging and worrying at the same time. 

Fastly, one of the world's most widely used cloud-based content delivery network providers, has said the incident was caused by a bug in its software that was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings.