Cloudflare down: Internal server error explained

Cloudflare is down again, and the internet is affected — but unlike last time, this outage seems to have been quickly fixed.

Users started reporting issues with Cloudflare early on Friday, with Downdetector showing a spike in outage reports for the service (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, the same parent company as Mashable.)

Cloudflare's own system status dashboard says that the company is investigating "issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs." A fix has already been implemented, Cloudflare says.

The outage seems to have affected numerous online sites and services, including Fortnite, Doordash, AWS, Shopify, Claude, League of Legends, Zoom, and others.

A few weeks ago, a massive Cloudflare outage, caused by an error in the system that (ironically) protects websites from DDoS attacks, took out numerous popular internet sites and services. Company CEO Matthew Prince called it the worst outage that Cloudflare has experienced since 2019.

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