Cloudflare hit by another major outage: What happened this time
Photo: the previous major Cloudflare outage occurred on November 18 (Getty Images)
One of the world’s leading content-delivery and website-protection networks, Cloudflare, has again faced a major outage. Some Western websites and online services have begun operating with disruptions, according to Downdetector, a resource that monitors website and service outages in real time.
A new wave of service disruptions has affected platforms that rely on Cloudflare’s infrastructure. In particular, users are once again experiencing difficulties accessing Twitter (X) and other major platforms.
Photo: Cloudflare outage (downdetector.com)
According to Downdetector data, around 20,000 people have encountered problems across various services. Cloudflare has not yet commented on the situation.
Experts note that Cloudflare handles between 20% and 30% of all internet traffic. An outage cannot completely "take down" the internet, but it can easily disrupt a third of global services. As a result of the large-scale malfunction, internet companies are losing the availability of their resources.
How Cloudflare affects internet operations
Cloudflare sits between users and websites. In particular, the company provides DNS resolution, content delivery, caching, encryption, protection against attacks, and traffic filtering.
For this reason, an outage in one service or region leads to errors across many websites that are not even directly connected to each other. Experts warn that the high concentration of infrastructure in the hands of a few major providers creates systemic risks for the entire network.
Previous Cloudflare outage
On November 18, Cloudflare experienced a major global outage. At the time, disruptions were recorded on popular platforms, including Twitter (X), a number of news and entertainment websites, as well as services operating through APIs.
As a result of the Cloudflare outage, services and sites such as Pokerogue, ChatGPT, Twitter (X), Spotify, TikTok, WhatsApp, Pinterest, and others were affected.
