Outage at network firm Cloudflare hobbles websites

Websites including X and Spotify were affected by a major outage linked to Cloudflare.

Thousands of users have reported issues on a number of different websites, including movie review site Letterboxd, affected by technical issues in the internet networking services business.

Monitoring site DownDetector, itself affected by the outage, showed a flurry of problems reported on Tuesday evening (AEDT).

More than 10,000 DownDetector users have reported issues with Cloudflare.

Some of the affected websites, including X, temporarily came back online without further problems.

Users saw a message on some websites stating that the problems were caused by an “internal server error within the Cloudflare network.”

Cloudflare provides networking and security services to help many online businesses’ websites and applications operate.