millions of websites are down after an internal failure

History repeats itself just a few weeks later. cloudflareone of the fundamental pillars of the internet infrastructure, is suffering from technical problems that have left a multitude of web pages and digital services inoperative and with loading failures. The incident is especially affecting electronic commerce, with giants such as PCComponentes or MediaMarkt experiencing drops in their services.

what’s happening. According to the official company status pageat 08:56 (09:56 CEST) Cloudflare has begun investigating “issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs.” Although the company already indicates that it is investigating, the impact on clients who use its APIs is immediate, causing requests to fail and errors to be displayed.

Coincidentally, the company is carrying out scheduled maintenance in its Chicago data center (ORD), although at the moment it is unknown if there is a direct relationship between both incidents.

The impact. The decline is palpable in our country. Users and reports on social networks confirm that high-traffic websites such as PCComponentes and MediaMarkt have ceased to be operational. There are also complaints about communication services like Zoom.

We do not yet know the magnitude of the failure, since it has just occurred, but it is notable that pages like Downdetector have also succumbed. The tool we use to check if a service is down is having trouble loading.

It rains in the wet. This is not the first time this has happened. Less than a month ago, on November 18, Twitter and ChatGPT were the “snitches” of a Unusual traffic spike on Cloudflare services which wiped out many other websites until service was restored.

This recurrence highlights the extreme dependence that the network has on this provider. When your systems fail, the domino effect is inevitable: if Cloudflare goes down, half the internet goes down.

At this time, the incident status remains marked as “investigating.” However, some websites are beginning to return to normal: Downdetector itself already reflects the Cloudflare incident.

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