The Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare experienced an issue early Friday that brought down some of the world’s most popular websites for a few hours before a fix was deployed.
The company, whose software is used to manage and secure traffic for about 20 per cent of the Internet, said just after 9 a.m. London time, its dashboard and related application programme interfaces started to experience issues, The Guardian reported.
The outage affected websites that include LinkedIn, Coinbase and Substack, CNBCÂ reported, and the outage monitoring website Downdetector saw increases in reports of issues on Shopify, the HSBC and UK food delivery company Deliveroo a little after 9 a.m. as well.
Cloudflare’s services include guards against distributed denial of service attacks, which occur when attempts are made to overload a website with traffic requests.
Cloudflare said it has implemented a fix and was watching for results, and according to its own status website, all systems are now operational.
Last month, Cloudflare also experienced an error that brought widespread outages to websites using its services, with that issue causing problems for the social media site X, as well as sites that include Google, OpenAI, and United Press International. (UPI)
