"It's not just you - Cloudflare is down, which has brought down a great number of sites. Cloudflare is a CDN (content delivery network) and offers cybersecurity and other services. It is widely used to reduce the load on a website's servers and to protect them from attacks. This level of centralization has its downsides, though, as we are experiencing now."
"Some affected sites are hard or impossible to access, e.g. X and ChatGPT are down. Not everyone uses Cloudflare, so many sites are still up if you're looking for something to do - Reddit and Gemini still work, for example. Our site is too (or you wouldn't be reading this). It's how it goes when a major service provider runs into rough water. For example, Reddit, Snapchat and many other sites were down when AWS had issues last month."
A Cloudflare outage is causing numerous websites to fail or load intermittently. Cloudflare functions as a CDN and provides cybersecurity and other services to reduce server load and protect sites. Centralization of such services can amplify the impact when outages occur. GSMArena experienced brief issues and implemented temporary changes to restore functionality. Some major services like X and ChatGPT are hard or impossible to access, while other platforms such as Reddit and Gemini remain reachable because they do not rely on Cloudflare. Cloudflare acknowledges the incident and posts updates on its Status Page. The problem appears intermittent and unresolved.
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