Global websites down as Cloudflare investigates fresh issues

Technical problems at internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare today have taken a host of websites offline this morning, reports The Guardian.

Cloudflare said shortly after 9am UK time that it “is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs [application programming interfaces – used when apps exchange data with each other].

Cloudflare has also reported it has implemented a potential fix to the issue and is monitoring the results.

But the outage has affected a number of websites and platforms, with reports of problems accessing LinkedIn, X, Canva – and even the DownDetector site used to monitor online service issues.

Last month, an outage at Cloudflare made many websites inaccessible for about three hours.