Major websites and services across the internet are down due to a hosting-platform outage

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Major website and internet service hosting platform Cloudflare experienced an outage on Tuesday, causing outages for sites and services that are hosted on the platform.
Cloudflare is aware of the outage and working to resolve it. Service has been partially restored and is working to restore global service.
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No, it’s not just you — major websites across the internet are down as of Tuesday morning.

That’s because Cloudflare is experiencing issues, according to the website-hosting platform itself and hundreds of tweets from frustrated social media users.

Cloudflare is an internet-hosting platform that many internet services rely on to remain functioning and protected in the case of a distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attack. An outage from Cloudflare affects internet services globally.

Cloudflare’s co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said Cloudflare is partially restored, and the company is working to restore services globally:

Flightradar, a site that tracks flights, is down, for example:

And so is Coinbase Pro, a cryptocurrency service:

And CoinDesk is reassuring that Bitcoin, which is trading at around $10,000, did not go down to $26:

According to Down Detector and reports on Twitter, websites and services experiencing outages around the time of the Cloudflare outage include: Discord, Sirius XM, Network Solutions, Shopify, Zendesk, Coinbase, Canva, Soundcloud, Sling TV, Wattpad, TransferWise, Robin Hood, Medium, BuzzFeed, Streamlabs, Concur, Pinterest, and Dropbox. Some of the outages of these sites and services may not be linked to the Cloudflare outage.

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