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many websites including Linkedin, zoom And Downdetector was shut down Friday morning after fresh issues at Cloudflare.
Cloudflare said shortly after 9 a.m. that it was “investigating issues with the Cloudflare dashboard and related APIs (application programming interfaces).”
The software business said users have seen “a large number of blank pages” as a result.
Shortly thereafter it said it had implemented a potential fix for the problem and was now monitoring the results.
Nevertheless, many websites and platforms were shut down, including the DownDetector site used to monitor online service problems.
Users also reported problems with other websites, including Zoom, LinkedIn, Shopify and Canva, although many of these are now back online.
After returning online, the DownDetector website recorded more than 4,500 reports related to Cloudflare issues.
India-based stock broker Groww also said it was facing technical issues “due to a global outage in Cloudflare.” Its services have now been restored.
Cloudflare provides network and security services to help many online businesses operate their websites and applications.
It claims that about 20% of all websites use its services in some form.
This comes just three weeks after Cloudflare’s previous problems affecting X, chatgptSpotify and multiplayer games, like union of Legends.
Jake Moore, global cybersecurity advisor at ESET, said: “If a major provider like Cloudflare goes down for any reason, thousands of websites become instantly inaccessible.
“The problems are often linked to the fact that we are using an outdated network to direct Internet users around the world to websites, but this highlights that this legacy design has a huge single point of failure.”