Cloudflare Service Outage Disrupts Internet; Problem Fixed
- Problems were not the result of a cyberattack, company says
- Several services affected, including Shopify, Downdetector
Cloudflare Inc. headquarters in San Francisco, California.
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Cloudflare Inc. suffered an outage on Friday, disrupting some parts of the internet. The company said it identified the problem and fixed it.
Cloudflare provides important services for the internet to function, such as load balancing, security, domain registration and video streaming. When the company experiences technical snafus, that can reverberate across the web.