Saltwire Network websites back online after server issues

The largest newspaper publishing company in Atlantic Canada, Saltwire Network, has its sitesback online after awidespread server issue Sunday morning.

SaltwireNetwork owns newspapers throughout the region including theChronicle 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 morningcausing 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 Saltwireserver issues are related to that.