Half the internet died while US people were sleeping

An outage of Cloudflare's servers caused a slew of websites and services to go down today, including big names such as Discord, DoorDash, and League of Legends.

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The online security company was quick to identify the problem and rectify the issue, getting these service back up and running, but it was a chaotic few minutes there.

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The issue was reported on 21st June at approximately 6:34 a.m. UTC, the problem identified just over 20 minutes later around 6:57 a.m., and the fix implemented at around 7:20 a.m

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"Connectivity in Cloudflare’s network has been disrupted in broad regions," wrote Cloudflare in the initial report

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"Eyeballs attempting to reach Cloudflare sites in impacted regions will observe 500 errors. The incident impacts all data plane services in our network.

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Affected websites included Crunchyroll, Amazon Web Services, Google Services, NordVPN, Coinbase, Grindr, and Fur Affinity — among many, many more.

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