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October 16, 2015 03:48 am GMT

Here's the real reason you couldn't watch Netflix Thursday

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After an excruciating 90-minute outage that affected all streaming platforms in the U.S. Thursday afternoon, order has been restored to the world and millions of Netflix users are happily binge-watching once again

As for the cause of the failure, a representative for the content delivery service that powers Netflix, UltraDNS, told the New York Times that an internal server issue was to blame.

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The confirmation came after many people, and even the company itself, speculated that hackers might have been behind the outage. Employees initially believed UltraDNS had been the target of a Denial of Service attack, in which a service is intentionally flooded with traffic until it becomes overloaded, but this turned out not to be the case, UltraDNS spokeswoman Lara Wyss told the Times Read more...

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