A major technical issue at Cloudflare disrupted access to a wide range of websites and services, beginning around 11 AM. Users worldwide reported difficulties accessing platforms such as X, Spotify, ChatGPT, Canva, and Perplexity, with many seeing error messages and loading failures. By evening, outage reports surged into the thousands on Downdetector. Cloudflare plays a critical role in internet infrastructure, managing DNS, content delivery, and protection from DDoS attacks for many popular platforms. Advertisement

Any interruption in Cloudflare’s services has a broad and immediate impact. Cloudflare confirmed the outage caused widespread 500 errors across its network, as well as failures on its dashboard and API tools.

Users attempting to load affected sites encountered the message,

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