Internet users are reporting massive outages across platforms using Cloudflare, including Zoom, Canva, LinkedIn, and Down Detector.Cloudflare provides services to major websites, including Discord, Notion, X, Spotify, Canva, GitHub, and Stack Overflow.Shopping sites are affected too – Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, H&M, as well as some news media, including Politico, Axios, the BBC and more.
Even Down Detector, the website which tracks internet and app outages, is experiencing issues.Cloudflare is a company that helps nearly two in 10 websites secure and manage their internet traffic.Many of the platforms that were knocked offline use those servers.
POLL Are you experiencing internet issues? Yes No Stay up to date with the stories everybody’s talking about by signing up to Metro's News Updates newsletter.This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy In late November, dozens of websites using Cloudflare crashed, prompting the company’s co-founder and CEO, Matthew Prince, to apologise ‘for the pain we caused the Internet’ in a blog post.
More Trending Facial recognition tech could be expanded for police across the UK Tech 1 day ago By John Dunne Full list of areas in the UK targeted in ‘dodgy’ Fire TV stick crackdown YouTube release Spotify Wrapped-style recap of what you watched this year 'Scam adverts' are appearing on YouTube - experts say it will only get worse Prince said that the outage was caused by the system it uses to protect websites from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks crashing.DDoS are an attempt to disrupt a server’s traffic by overwhelming it, though Prince stressed the outage was not itself caused by a cyberattack.It’s unclear what’s caused today’s outages, but if you’re experiencing issues, you are not alone.
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