x Down : X, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Canva and many other platforms have been caught one by one due to problems in this platform. This is what the web security platform CloudFlare is all about. The question arises, what kind of support does Cloudflare give to these tech giants? Why is it disruptive to other tech platforms?
A report on this comes down to the detector
DownDetector knows this from user reports on their platform. Before that there were issues with X, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Canva and many other platforms. X, film review service Letterboxd, design tools such as Canva, chatbots such as ChatGPT, or certain online games such as League of Legends users experience problems accessing platforms. Donald Trump’s platform Truth Social also suffered problems during the Cloudflare outage. Users report that it is difficult to open sites and apps. Later many said Cloudflare network problem for this.
What exactly is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare actually works behind the scenes. It is part of a larger team providing a web-infrastructure. Who help websites deliver page views to users. It provides technology to protect websites from hackers and fake traffic and to speed up web pages. Although their work is usually hidden, their absence during outages is noticeable.
Several users on Tuesday said they were unable to use the platform on mobile and computers. While opening X, visitors received a message from Cloudflare, stating that an error had occurred on their platform. It should try again after a few minutes.
What Cloudfair has to say about this
Cloudflare has officially acknowledged the massive outage. The company said that numerous clients have been affected by this temporary setback. This is an important issue, which the company has already started investigating. The company confirmed that users are experiencing “widespread 500 errors”, with notable failures also hitting the CloudFlare dashboard and API.
This outage was so severe that it also affected the down detector. which users look at to track such outages. Because it also depends on Cloudflare’s infrastructure. After the site finally recovered, major platforms including Spotify, Canva, X and ChatGPT were receiving numerous reports of errors.