"These onsite installations must comply with the same installation standards and protocols as those carried out at designated centres," said LTA.

In the olden days, publishing a site on the Internet required that you figure out hosting and have at least some experience with HTML, CSS, and the other languages that make the Internet work. But the emergence of blogging and "Web 2.0" sites in the late ...

More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.

The outage at Amazon's cloud-based web services knocked out major sites like Hulu and Venmo, plus Amazon.com itself. But most websites are back online now.

Many sites came back online within a few hours, although Downdetector showed another spike in user reports around noon ET of outages at Amazon, AWS and Alexa. The company's latest update at 4 p.m. ET said it was still working to recover services.

The places hit by the outage vary significantly. It took out major social media platforms like Snapchat and Reddit, banks like Lloyds and Halifax, and games like Roblox and Fortnite. AWS is a US giant with a large global footprint,