Cloudflare Outage Hits Major Websites

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A significant disruption struck the global internet today (November 18) as Cloudflare, a critical internet infrastructure and security company, was hit by an outage that knocked several major websites and services offline for users around the world.

The incident, which began around 6:20 a.m. ET, immediately highlighted the fragility of the modern digital ecosystem, which relies heavily on a handful of centralized service providers.

At 14:42 UTC (9.42 a.m. ET), Cloudflare announced: “A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.”

Scope of disruption

The impact of the outage was immediately ...