From Chatgpt to Cloudflare, in particular, offer security services aimed at protecting websites from DDoS attacks aimed at making a server, website or network unavailable by overloading it with large amounts of traffic from various compromised sources. Hundreds of thousands of companies around the world use the services of American companies. Cloudfare, which was performing scheduled maintenance at several data centers on Tuesday, announced shortly before 11 a.m. that it was aware of the issues some customers were experiencing. “We are trying to understand the scope of the problem and fix it,” Cloudfare said. This isn’t the first time a Cloudfare failure has crippled the web. That already happened in July 2019 and June 2022.
From X to ChatGpt: sites down worldwide due to Cloudfare issues