Cloudflare down as X and Spotify among hundreds of websites to go offline
Cloudflare down as X and Spotify among hundreds of websites to go offline
- Parts of the internet have been experiencing disruptions due to a technical problem at Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure provider.
- Websites such as X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Bet365 and Letterboxd displayed error messages, indicating pages could not load.
- The outage, which began around 11.30am UK time, affected a wide array of seemingly unconnected websites, with services slowly returning to normal.
- Cloudflare provides essential technologies that power online experiences, including protection against cyber attacks and managing heavy traffic.
- The company said that the problem has now been resolved - a post at 2.42pm GMT on Tuesday said: “A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.”