Summary
Cloudflare, a company that helps make the internet faster and safer, experienced an outage that affected many services like ChatGPT, New Jersey Transit, and social media site X. Cloudflare has mostly fixed the issue but continues to monitor the situation for any more problems. The outage shows how important Cloudflare's role is in how the internet works for many sites.
Key Facts
- Cloudflare had an outage affecting services including ChatGPT, League of Legends, and New Jersey Transit.
- Other platforms like X, Shopify, Dropbox, and Moody’s were also impacted.
- Cloudflare is working to resolve remaining issues and is monitoring for any further disruptions.
- Cloudflare is a "content delivery network" that helps make the internet faster and safer by sitting between users and websites.
- When Cloudflare experiences problems, it can lead to widespread internet issues because 20% of the world's websites use its services.
- Similar outages have occurred with other companies like Microsoft and Amazon, affecting major online services.
