Catchy title of this BBC story.
“One of the things that we’ve seen in the last several years is an increased reliance on a small number of networks and companies to deliver large portions of Internet content,” says Luke Deryckx, Chief Technical Officer at Down Detector. “When one of those, or more than one, has a problem, it affects not just them, but hundreds of thousands of other services,” he says.
For more, check out this BBC/MSN story.