Cloudflare suffers outage, taking websites offline in many countries

Access to websites using Cloudflare services was unavailable in many countries on Tuesday afternoon (17)As reported by BleepingComputerPeople who attempted to open the affected pages encountered an error message informing them of the instability.

According to the publication whose own website was affected, The problem appears to have only occurred in some areasThis way, for example, Internet users in the United States could view the page while Internet users in other countries could not, and vice versa.

Additionally, the report noted that monitoring tools showed that the site was receiving traffic, but not all visitors were able to access it, suggesting that the outage was specific to certain locations. THE Downdetector saw an increase in complaints about the platform during the same period.

Another website that also confirms that it is NodeJS.org was affected by the Cloudflare outageThe issue made it difficult to access the page and download the program throughout the day, according to those responsible for the open-source software. Reports from more customers of the service were also noticed on social media.

Planned maintenance

According to the report, Cloudflare data centers in Singapore and Nashville (United States) were undergoing planned maintenance during the period when the instability affected the websites. Despite this, No issues were noted regarding these jobs on the company status page..

According to speculation, any malfunction during the process could have rendered the device unusable. However, the company has not yet released any updates on the case. It is unknown what caused the outage on Cloudflare’s systems.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) was founded in the USA in 2009. Serving millions of websites worldwideincluding tools to improve the performance and security of pages, applications and domains.