Internet down? Cloudflare outage affected many popular websites

Hundreds of websites have been down on Tuesday due to the Cloudflare outage, including a large number of popular websites. An issue affecting content delivery network (CDN) Cloudflare has caused these websites to show ‘500 Internal Server Error’, affecting thousands of users. Several web-based services such as Discord, Canva and NordVPN have also been affected. This outage also affected many popular services. These include Crunchyroll and Feedly. Medium.com, news outlets Register, Groww, Buffer, Upstox, iSpirit and Social Blade were also affected.

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Ookla’s DownDetector, which helps track internet outages around the world, is also not able to understand this error. Cloudflare acknowledged the issue and fixed the issue after some users on social media reported it.

Latest on Cloudflare Status website Update According to Indian time, at 12:04 pm, due to a technical reason, Cloudflare’s network was disrupted. The company said the incident affected all data plane services in its network, causing 500 errors for websites and services using the CDN. It has been told That this problem was fixed at 12:50 pm and monitoring of its result has been started.

Some users were also unable to access the DownDetector website due to the outage. Websites and services affected by this incident have not yet reached all users. It is taking them some time. Discord has told that it has started working again worldwide.

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure company, popular for providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection and security services. The company has said that it is investigating the matter.

A large number of websites and services around the world operate through the Cloudflare CDN. A report by web technology survey firm W3Techs shows that Cloudflare is the worldwide CDN market leader. Its competitors like Akamai and Amazon Cloudfront are far behind.