What is Cloudflare as major outage hits UK websites View Image

Internet users across the UK have been grappling with disruption this morning due to a significant outage - and may be scratching their heads about the relatively unknown company at the heart of it. The issues are stemming from problems with Cloudflare, a content delivery network that provides web services globally to around 20 per cent of websites on the internet.

Outage monitoring website Downdetector reported a spike in outages this morning. Activity was almost normal before 8am this morning but the website said reports rocketed to 1,688 by 9am. By 10am, problems appeared to be easing.

Downdetector explained this morning: "Cloudflare operates as a content delivery network and distributed DNS (domain name system). Its se

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