From X to ChatGpt: sites down due to Cloudflare problem. The company: 'We have fixed it'
Cloudflare is the US company that provides content delivery networks, internet security services and distributed DNS services
Key points
From X, the former Twitter, to ChatGpt's artificial intelligence. During the morning of Tuesday 18 November, the most visited websites worldwide went offline. The cause was related to a problem with the company Cloudflare.
Resolved at 4pm
A problem that, as the company itself announced, was resolved shortly before 4pm after 'implementing a change that restored the dashboard services' and 'implementing a fix'.
What happened
The American company, which helps sites to protect and manage their Internet traffic, initiated scheduled maintenance activities in several data centres before 11 a.m. Shortly afterwards, at around 12.45 p.m., several reports arrived from users and companies.
Among them, Elon Musk's social media completely blocked. Thus, Cloudflare's response: "We are trying to understand the extent of the problem and resolve it".
At 2pm, the new communication: the company said it had identified the cause and was working to solve it. Two hours later, the 'problem solved'.
