
A Cloudflare outage disrupted many websites, sparking debate about reliance on a single provider and the risks of centralization.

A routine internal update at Cloudflare triggered a cascade of failures on Tuesday, knocking out swathes of the internet and leaving millions of users staring at frozen timelines, broken websites and baffling error messages. For several hours, major services – including X, ChatGPT and a range of government and retail websites ( as well as

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