Another outage occurred on Friday at several websites hosted on Cloudflare servers. According to reports, this is the second time in three weeks that the websites have been down. There was a flood of complaints on social media. Users reported that they were not able to access many websites like Canva, BookMyShow, Groww, Coinbase and LinkedIn. Earlier on November 18, there was an outage in Cloudflare, which affected many AI platforms in India. However, according to reports, OpenAI and ChatGPT were working in India.
Trading platforms affected
According to an ET report, trading platforms like Groww and Zerodha were also affected as they were hosted on Cloudflare servers. Zerodha said that its Kite service has been completely restored. At the time of writing, reports revealed that Cloudflare’s global outage had been fixed.
What did Cloudflare say?
According to reports, Cloudflare itself said that it has fixed an issue affecting its application programming interfaces (APIs) related to its dashboard. Trading platforms were affected by this outage on Friday. This is the second time in three weeks that services related to Cloudflare have been affected. The previous outage was more serious, affecting everything from ChatGPT to former US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform.
What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare is a big part of the modern Internet. It helps many websites deliver content, provide security, and keep websites online during times of traffic surges or cyber attacks. Any problem with Cloudflare directly affects all the websites connected to its servers. Although this happens rarely, this is the second time in three weeks that this problem has occurred.