American hosting provider Cloudflare, whose services are used by hundreds of thousands of companies around the world, faced a large-scale failure. Among those affected were chatbot ChatGPT, rating agency Moody's and social platform X - their sites on Tuesday partially blocked access for users, writes Bloomberg.
Cloudflare said on its website that it was investigating an issue that was "potentially affecting multiple customers." The same page indicated that Cloudflare was experiencing issues with its customer support portal, and that maintenance was scheduled earlier in the day in some regions. At one point, even Cloudflare's own serviceability status site stopped loading.
Cloudflare's software acts as a sort of layer between sites and end users, protecting resources from attacks that could overwhelm them with traffic.
Cloudflare shares were down 3.6 percent in pre-market trading in New York.
This isn't the company's first outage: in July 2019, problems in Cloudflare's systems caused one part of its network to start "pulling" computing resources from the rest, causing thousands of websites around the world using Cloudflare to be unavailable for up to 30 minutes.
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