Cloud computing firm Cloudflare said it has 'fixed' a problem that led to the websites for several banks, Shopify, Zoom and LinkedIn to go down on Friday.
“A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results,” the San Francisco-based company said on its status page on Friday. The same page shows that there had been issues with the Cloudflare dashboard and related APIs earlier in the day.
There was a global power cut on November 18 originating from Cloudflare that rendered a number of major websites unusable for several hours.
Sites including X, Meta's Facebook and OpenAI's ChatGPT were among those affected at the time.
Cloudflare’s software is used by hundreds of thousands of companies globally, acting as a buffer between their websites and end users and working to protect their sites from attacks that might overload them with traffic. Its widespread use is why many popular websites go down or are unreliable during Cloudflare outages.
