Cloudflare Outage Disrupts High-Profile Sites Including X and ChatGPT
A Cloudflare outage affected numerous high-profile websites, including X and ChatGPT, with thousands of users reporting issues on Downdetector after 11:30 GMT on Tuesday.
Users of X encountered an internal server error attributed to Cloudflare's problem, while ChatGPT displayed a Cloudflare-related error message prompting users to unblock challenges on cloudflare.com.
Cloudflare acknowledged the issue on its status dashboard at 11:48 UTC, stating it was investigating an incident potentially impacting multiple customers.
The company later reported that services were beginning to recover, although users might continue to experience higher-than-normal error rates during the remediation process.
Cloudflare serves as a major internet security provider, with an estimated 20% of all websites using its services; however, the total number of sites affected by the outage remains unclear.
This disruption followed recent outages involving AWS and Microsoft Azure, which knocked thousands of sites offline, underscoring the fragility of the internet infrastructure.
