SOME of the internet’s most popular services have gone down in a big outage.
Cloudflare – the backbone of many sites – is the source of the issue, having suffered a “critical” incident.
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VPN provider NordVPN and messaging social platform Discord are among the big names to be hit by problems.
Cloudflare is currently implementing a fix.
At around 7am UK time, the firm said: “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”
20 minutes later, it updated to say the fix has been implemented and “we are monitoring the results”.
Is NordVPN down?
Users flocked to Twitter to find out what’s happening.
NordVPN, which has millions of customers, responded to people saying: “Seems that there are issues with Cloudflare services that affects a wide range of services including ours.
“However, the team is already investigating and working to resolve it.
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“We apologize for the temporary inconveniences.”
But NordVPN was not alone – many sites rely on Cloudflare.
According to TechCrunch, Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, Feedly, Zerodha, Medium.com, news outlet Register, Groww, Buffer, iSpirt, Upstox and Social Blade were also affected.
What caused Cloudflare outage?
According to Cloudfare’s own status page, the issue is a “critical P0 incident”.
“Connectivity in Cloudflare’s network has been disrupted in broad regions,” the company said.
“Eyeballs attempting to reach Cloudflare sites in impacted regions will observe 500 errors.
“The incident impacts all data plane services in our network.”
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