Worldwide Internet outage reported after Cloudflare service crashed earlier in the day. Here are all the details.
Earlier, on Tuesday, several websites around the world went down, displaying the following error message – “Internal server error 500”. While most of the Internet is struggling to figure out what happened, Cloudflare has reported that an issue affecting a content delivery network (CDN) has downed much of the Internet. As a result, popular web-based services like Discord, Canva, and NordVPN, among others, have been down for a while. The funny thing is that the website used to monitor internet status, Downdetector, itself has stopped working.
On its website and social media, Cloudflare acknowledged the disruption to its services. The company immediately deployed to fix it. Now, most of the servers are back online and all of these popular services are back online. Cloudflare said that the issue affected its network-based services and resulted in a “500 Internal Server Error” across all sites and services using its network.
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The outage was first reported around 12:50pm IST, and Cloudflare said at the time it was working on a fix. In a statement to Gadgets360, Cloudflare said “Due to the nature of the issue, customers may experience difficulty accessing Cloudflare-based websites and services from approximately 0628-0720 UTC. Cloudflare is working on a fix. within minutes and the network is now running normally.”
“Given the size of Cloudflare and how much of the Internet depends on our network, when we have problems, it’s important for us to be open and transparent about what happened, why it happened, and how it happened. What are we doing to make sure that doesn’t happen again,” it added.
