Cloudflare has been hit by a massive outage that has knocked dozens of major websites offline.
The company provides web security, speed, and routing services for millions of sites, so when Cloudflare goes down, anything that relies on it cannot load, a failure that ripples across a huge portion of the internet.
Issues hit Cloudflare around 6:48am ET on Tuesday.
Downdetector, which tracks online outages, shows the Cloudflare glitch has affected X, Spotify, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Uber, Grindr and many others.
Cloudflare has acknowledged the outage, saying: ‘Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation.
‘Some services may be intermittently impacted. We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we are able to remediate. More updates to follow shortly.’
Cloudflare has identified the problem, noting a fix is being implemented.
‘We are continuing to work towards restoring other services,’ the company shared at 8:13am ET.
This is a developing story… More updates to come.
Millions of users (stock) are unable to access their favorite websites Tuesday morning
Downdetector, a site that monitors online outages, shows the Cloudflare glitch has affected X, Spotify, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Uber and the dating site Grindr, along with many others
Cloudflare runs a huge network of servers spread across more than 330 cities in over 120 countries.
These servers help websites load faster, stay secure and handle traffic smoothly.
Its system is extremely powerful, handling massive amounts of data and connecting to more than 13,000 internet networks, including the biggest internet providers, cloud services, and major companies around the world.
The outage stems from the Cloudflare Global Network, a distributed network of data centers that connects users to websites and applications, making them faster and more secure.
Downdetector received tens of thousands of reports since the outage began, with impacted users experiencing issues with server connections, websites and hosting.
