A Cloudflare outage is taking down parts of the internet – here’s what we know so far

If you’re not familiar with the company, Cloudflare provides a wide range of online infrastructure backing up some of the world’s biggest websites.

The company’s offerings inlcude protection services against cyberattacks, particularly DDoS attacks, where victims are bombarded with huge numbers of requests.

Cloudflare has confirmed the problem, posting at 11.48am GMT;

“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing.

“We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.”

First off – the issue appears to have hit a number of major websites, including X, formerly known as Twitter, film reviewing site Letterboxd – and even outage tracker website DownDetector, which is making tracking the issue quite tricky for us…