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- The Cloudflare issue has taken many websites offline.
- Affected sites include X, ChatGPT and more.
- These outages are similar to those that occurred earlier this year.
It’s not just you, another internet outage this morning is taking down some of your favorite sites.
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Around 7 p.m. ET, reports emerged that users were having trouble accessing X. Other sites including the popular game League of Legends, ChatGPT and Spotify were also shut down. Users immediately connected the dots and discovered that all those sites use Cloudflare to make their sites faster and ironically more reliable.
exactly the same
Although not as widespread, the outages seem similar to earlier this year when Cloudflare problems took hundreds of sites offline, and similar to last year’s massive CrowdStrike outage. This is not just an American problem, as reports are coming in from all over the world.
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even downdetector.comA popular site for tracking outages, owned by ZDNET’s parent company Ziff Davis, appears to be shutting down. When I tried to see how widespread the problems are this morning, I got a message saying, “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.”
Cloudflare is investigating
Cloudflare has confirmed this issue system status pageSaying, “Checking – Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently affected. We are focused on restoring service. We will update as soon as we are able to make improvements. More updates coming soon.”
The company said in a later update that it was “continuing to investigate the issue”, but did not give any possible timeline for a resolution.
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As of 8 a.m. ET,
I will update this piece as this story develops.
