A Cloudflare outage has hit many popular services, including Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, NordVPN, and Feedly. Other popular services confirmed to be affected include Zerodha, Medium.com, news agency Register, Groww, Buffer, iSpirt, Upstox, and Social Blade. The internet infrastructure company said it is investigating the “widespread” issue.
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“Users may experience errors or timeouts accessing Cloudflare’s network or services,” said the company, which also suffered outages in parts of the world last week. John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, said in a Hacker News thread that it was a global outage, but “many regions of the world” were affected. The problems appear to started around 2:30 a.m. ET. As of 3:20 a.m. ET Cloudflare says “a fix is being applied.”
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Users have reported that Coinbase, Shopify, and League of Legends experiencing issues, according to DownDetector, a crowdsourced web monitoring tool that tracks outages.
Cloudflare says it has identified the issue and released a fix. Several businesses are confirming that their systems are starting to recover .
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Cloudflare has faced similar issues in the past, such as in July and August 2020. This is not good for a company that advertises its services as a way to reduce downtime.
Information source: techcrunch.com
