Cloudflare issue resolved after massive outage affecting X and ChatGPT

Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleCloudflare has vowed “to make sure this never happens again” after a massive outage affecting platforms like ChatGPT, X, and various other websites.Internet users across the globe were furious as they were hit with error messages and couldn’t get websites to load.A Cloudflare spokesperson said the problems were caused by a "spike in unusual traffic" to one of its services, starting at 11:20 UTC.In an update, the chief technology officer wrote, “We were able to resolve the impact to traffic flowing through our network at approximately 14:30 UTC, which was our first priority, but the incident required some additional work to fully restore our control plane (our dashboard and the APIs our customers use to configure Cloudflare).”They continued, “The control plane should now be fully available. We are monitoring those services and continuing to ensure that everything is fully operational. Again, we plan to share a complete walkthrough of what went wrong today in a couple of hours and how we plan to make sure this never happens again.”In fullCloudflare down latest: ‘Fix’ update issued after X, ChatGPT and more websites suffer mass outageThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

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