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 issue, saying it is experiencing an internal service degradation that may intermittently impact some services.
The company said it is focused on restoring service and will provide updates as the fix rolls out.
Cloudflare later confirmed it had identified the problem and begun implementing a solution.
‘We are continuing to work towards restoring other services,’ the company shared at 8:13 a.m. ET.
This is a developing story… More updates to come.
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.
