Cloudflare Broke The Internet, Literally

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Cloudflare encountered a blackout on Tuesday morning.

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Cloudflare's innovation abilities various sites and administrations across the web,

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And the outage seemed to impact a range of different sites, including Discord, and Shopify.

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Reports of issues began at around 2:30 AM ET. Cloudflare announced that it settled the issue at 4:06 AM ET.

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The issues were most problematic for users of Cloudflare’s own DNS lookup service.

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Multiple Verge staff members found they were unable to access any websites at all.

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"The outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations."

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Cloudflare has encountered the same issues in July and August 2020.

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