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A massive outage at Cloudflare, one of the world’s top internet infrastructure providers, has sent shockwaves across the web, bringing down or disrupting access to major platforms across the globe.
Thousands of users were met with “500 Internal Server Error” messages when trying to reach popular services that rely on Cloudflare’s network. Platforms affected include social media, AI, gaming, and file-sharing sites. The disruption has exposed just how fragile the backbone of the internet can be.
The issue began early in the day when a sudden spike in unusual traffic hit parts of Cloudflare’s infrastructure. This overwhelmed key systems, triggering cascading failures across multiple data centres.
Cloudflare engineers say they are working tirelessly to reroute traffic and restore full service, but some areas are still recovering.This is not the first time Cloudflare has faced a major outage this year.
In June, another incident knocked several of its core services offline—Cloudflare later confirmed the problem stemmed from a failure in its Workers KV storage infrastructure, which is critical to many of its products. In July, a misconfigured update caused a global DNS disruption for Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 resolver, taking the service offline for more than an hour.
Cloudflare says the current outage was not caused by a security incident, and no data has been lost. However, critics argue that relying on a few infrastructure giants remains a huge risk, and the internet’s architecture needs to be rethought for resilience.
For now, users around the world are being urged to be patient. Cloudflare has already implemented several fixes, but full recovery may take some time. The incident is a stark reminder of how much of the internet depends on a handful of companies—and how quickly things can unravel when they fail.
