What prompted the largest American content delivery network and DDoS mitigation provider, Cloudflare, to go down and affect major services.

A “wide-spread” outage that earlier in the day impacted several sites, including FTX, Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, NordVPN, and Feedly, was fixed, according to Cloudflare on Tuesday.

About an hour after customers started having trouble accessing certain major websites, including Zerodha, Medium.com, news source Register, Groww, Buffer, iSpirt, Upstox, and Social Blade, the internet infrastructure company fixed the problem.

The business, which last week had a similar outage in various regions of the globe, didn’t say what caused the problem. The company’s chief technical officer, John Graham-Cumming, earlier today claimed on a Hacker News thread that the outage didn’t effect “all areas,” but rather “a lot of places.”

According to DownDetector, a crowdsourced online monitoring platform that analyses outages, users have also reported having trouble using Coinbase, Shopify, and League of Legends.

There are several rumours spreading on social media claiming Cloudflare was the victim of a cyber assault, but I believe these rumours are unfounded since Cloudflare is a cyber security organisation by nature.

The good news is that Cloudflare services have resumed, and everything seems to be alright thus far.

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