Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Popular Sites, Later Resolved
By TOSI ORE
WEB infrastructure provider Cloudflare experienced a network issue on Tuesday that temporarily restricted access to several popular websites, but the company confirmed the problem has now been fixed.
“A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved,” Cloudflare stated on its status page at 9:40 a.m. ET.
Dane Knecht, Cloudflare’s Chief Technology Officer, apologized for the disruption on X, emphasizing that it was not the result of a cyberattack. “Earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in Cloudflare’s network impacted large amounts of traffic. I apologize for the impact this caused,” Knecht wrote.
The outage affected major platforms including ChatGPT and X, which were partially down or limited for users, as well as prominent Nigerian news websites such as Independent Newspapers, TheCable, Premium Times, Nairametrics, PUNCH, and The Nation. Services appeared to be largely restored by 10:30 a.m. ET.
Earlier, around 7 a.m. ET, Cloudflare alerted users to a network issue impacting multiple customers and confirmed that remediation efforts had begun. “We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts,” the company said.
Cloudflare provides web infrastructure and security services, including traffic management and protection against cyberattacks, making its availability critical to a wide range of online businesses and platforms.
