Cloudflare outage knocks major websites down

MANILA, Philippines — Several websites were inaccessible on Tuesday evening amid a technical problem with internet infrastructure company Cloudflare.

Cloudflare operates a global network that provides a suite of services to improve the speed and security of websites and applications.

Several websites were affected by the outage, including ChatGPT, Twitter (now X), and down detector sites like downdetector.ph.

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At 11:38 a.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (7:38 p.m. Manila time), Cloudflare said the cause of the problem was an internal service degradation.

In an update at 1:35 p.m. UTC (9:35 p.m. Manila time), Cloudflare advised that it is still “working on restoring service for application services customers.”

Over an hour later, Cloudflare confirmed that the issue causing the outage had been fixed.

“We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal,” Cloudflare said through its status update at 2:42 p.m. UTC (10:35 p.m. Manila time).

This incident occurred a month after Amazon Web Services suffered a similar outage, grounding several websites like Netflix, Disney+, Discord, among others. /mcm