Hundreds of websites, on Tuesday, experienced temporary disruptions after a technical issue at Cloudflare caused several of them to go offline.
Users attempting to access platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) and OpenAi’s ChatGPT were met with error notices indicating that Cloudflare’s systems were preventing pages from loading.
Cloudflare, a key internet infrastructure provider, supports many essential online functions from shielding websites against cyber attacks to helping them remain stable under heavy traffic.
In a status update, the company announced: “Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.”
Many affected users encountered an alert referring to an “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network”, along with a prompt to “please try again in a few minutes.”
The outage seems to have started around 12:30 pm Nigerian time.
Although some sites briefly loaded when refreshed, the issue seems to have been resolved now as the major sites are now back online.