Cloudflare has gone down , taking many other websites down with it.

The outage affected much of the web: X, formerly known as Twitter, Substack, Canva and more appeared to have gone down. Notably, that included Down Detector, a tracking website that shows outages around the world.

Some sites that had been caught up in a major outage last month were not affected , however, presumably they had make themselves less reliant on Cloudflare in the time since. That included ChatGPT.

Visitors to a number of pages saw a “500 internet server error” warning, rather than the content they expected.

The problems come just two-and-a-half weeks after Cloudflare was hit by major issues that took it offline for hours .

The company offers web infrastructure services that power many of the world’s

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