Cloudflare outage UK: Internet stops working properly as company goes down - what has the firm said?
Cloudflare has gone down, taking many other websites down with it.
Visitors to a number of pages saw a “500 internet server error” warning, rather than the content they expected. One of the websites that has gone down is Down Detector, a tracking website that shows outages around the world.
It seems that DownDetector is now back up and running. However, Cloudflare has addressed the issue.
It said: “Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs. Customers using the Dashboard / Cloudflare APIs are impacted as requests might fail and/or errors may be displayed.”
Some sites that had been caught up in a major outage last month were not affected, however, presumably they had make themselves less reliant on Cloudflare in the time since. That included ChatGPT.
The problems come just two-and-a-half weeks after Cloudflare was hit by major issues that took it offline for hours.