Today, December 5, Internet users have once again encountered widespread disruptions affecting a number of popular sites and services. The issues are related to the functioning of the company Cloudflare, one of the largest providers of content delivery and DDoS protection services in the world.
According to the company's information, they are investigating the causes of the outage affecting the Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs. Some clients report facing significant difficulties: their requests are not being fulfilled, and errors are occurring with the services.
Impact on websites and services
Due to the problems with Cloudflare, millions of websites have become inaccessible to users. For example, services such as Perplexity and Downdetector, which confirm internet outages, have also encountered difficulties. Although it can be noted that the scale of the problems is less than during the outages on November 18, there is notable impact on platforms like Canva, Discord, and others.
Throughout today, Downdetector has recorded a significant number of user complaints about the unavailability of various resources, despite the monitoring service itself also being unavailable for some time.
User reactions
Users around the world are actively reporting outages on platforms such as X (Twitter), Spotify, YouTube, and others. At the same time, at the time of gathering this information, plans for the operation of Facebook and Instagram remain unchanged.
While it is currently unclear when the services will be fully restored, representatives of Cloudflare pledge to quickly resolve the issues and return everything to normal functioning.
