Saltwire Network websites back online after server issues
Dozens of Saltwire websites were offline Sunday morning until about 2 p.m.
The largest newspaper publishing company in Atlantic Canada, Saltwire Network, has its sites back online after a widespread server issue Sunday morning.
Saltwire Network owns newspapers throughout the region including the Chronicle Herald and Cape Breton Post in Nova Scotia, The Guardian in P.E.I., the St. John's Telegram in Newfoundland, and the Sackville Tribune-Post in New Brunswick.
On Sunday, websites across the network, in all four Atlantic provinces, were offline. By 3 p.m. Sunday, most were back online.
"A process that updates 'certificates' failed to run this morning causing an error," Ian Scott, chief operating officer and executive vice president of Saltwire Network, told CBC News in an email.
CNN is reporting an internet service, Cloudflare, that keeps websites up and running is down, affecting dozens of other websites. But Scott said it's unclear if the Saltwire server issues are related to that.
