{"id":188098,"date":"2025-11-19T01:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188098\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T01:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:14:13","slug":"websites-down-after-outage-at-network-firm-cloudflare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188098\/","title":{"rendered":"Websites down after outage at network firm Cloudflare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Websites<\/strong> including <strong>X<\/strong> and <strong>Spotify<\/strong> have been hit by a major outage linked to <strong>Cloudflare<\/strong>. BreakingNews.ie was also hit by this outage.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of users reported issues with a host of different websites, including the film review site Letterboxd, which were impacted by technical issues at the internet network services business.<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT, multiplayer games such as League of Legends and the Scottish Parliament website have also all been impacted.<\/p>\n<p>The DownDetector monitoring site, which was itself hit by the outage, showed a flurry of reported issues after 11am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 DownDetector users reported issues related to Cloudflare.<\/p>\n<p>A number of the websites affected, including X, came back online temporarily before suffering further problems.<\/p>\n<p>Users saw a message on a number of the websites saying the issues were caused by an \u201cinternal server error on Cloudflare\u2019s network\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare provides network and security services for many online businesses in order to help their websites and applications operate.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a server update that it was \u201cexperiencing an internal service degradation\u201d and that some service may be intermittently affected.<\/p>\n<p>It added: \u201cWe are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare, which runs services such as checking that visitors to websites are humans rather than bots, says around a fifth of all global websites use some of its services.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare had scheduled maintenance for the SCL (Santiago) data centre for Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Websites including X and Spotify have been hit by a major outage linked to Cloudflare. BreakingNews.ie was also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-188098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115573716643898145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}