Cloudflare down: Facebook and X among apps not working in major internet outage
4 days ago
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- Large parts of the web, including social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), PayPal, ChatGPT, and others, experienced outages starting around 11.20am.
- The affected sites are hosted on Cloudflare, a cybersecurity and content delivery service, which also acts as a domain name server.
- Over 11,000 people reported issues with Cloudflare, and engineers identified the problem but provided no timeline for a fix.
- Cloudflare briefly disabled WARP, a VPN-like service, before partially restoring services by 1.13pm.
- Users of ChatGPT and bet365 encountered error messages indicating they were 'blocked,' though the issue was due to Cloudflare's outage.
- This incident follows a recent outage caused by Amazon Web Services (AWS), highlighting the risks of relying on a single infrastructure provider.
- Experts warn that such outages expose the vulnerabilities in dependency chains and the importance of operational resilience.