Popular online services are now restored after a massive Internet outage that temporarily downed Cloudflare earlier today.
Gatekeepers News reports that the issue began when Cloudflare experienced an unusual surge in traffic across its network, which led to internal failures and widespread connection errors for websites that depend on its infrastructure.
The disruption affected services like Zoom, Spotify, Canva, PayPal, ChatGPT, and X which relied on Cloudflare’s network. Users trying to open these apps and websites were met with repeated “500 Internal Server Error” messages.
Engineers at the company announced they were working on a fix shortly after the problem began, and they warned that users might continue to experience slow performance or errors until the system became fully stable again.
