Cloudflare outage hits major web services including X, LinkedIn and Zoom – business live

Global websites down as Cloudflare investigates fresh issues Technical problems at internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare today have taken a host of websites offline this morning. Cloudflare said shortly after 9am UK time that it “is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs [application programming interfaces – used when apps exchange data with each other]. Cloudflare has also reported it has implemented a potential fix to the issue and is monitoring the results. But the outage has affected a number of websites and platforms, with reports of problems accessing LinkedIn, X, Canva – and even the DownDetector site used to monitor online service issues. Last month, an outage at Cloudflare made many websites inaccessible for about three hours. Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Jake Moore, global cybersecurity adviser at ESET, has summed up the problem: “If a major provider like Cloudflare goes down for any reason, thousands of websites instantly become unreachable. “The problems often lie with the fact we are using an old network to direct internet users around the world to websites but it simply highlights there is one huge single point of failure in this legacy design.” The
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