Key Points Cloudflare shares fell early Friday after a fresh wave of global website outages sent users scrambling and raised new concerns about the reliability of one of the internet’s most important infrastructure companies. The U.S.-based firm said it was investigating issues affecting its dashboard and related apps. Minutes later, Cloudflare announced it had “implemented … Read more
Several popular internet services suddenly slowed or appeared to be down this morning — users saw “service unavailable” and internal server errors, and many simply typed “Cloudflare is down.” Among the major companies affected were X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, and several other platforms, but Cloudflare later said it had identified and fixed the problem. 🚨 … Read more
Whenever news of a technical problem involving large companies or popular Internet services breaks, people’s attention immediately turns to the infrastructure that powers them. The recent news of “Cloudflare down,” which disrupted services like ChatGPT and X (formerly Twitter), highlights the importance of CDNs and Internet service providers. Below, we explain in simple terms what … Read more