Articles tagged "CDN"

Cloudflare's recent outage took down thousands of websites, including high-profile victims like ChatGPT and Spotify, due to a configuration file propagation issue. The company has shared a detailed postmortem of the incident, providing valuable insights into the root cause and learnings.

The November 2025 Cloudflare outage took down Downdetector, a real-time outage monitoring service, due to its key dependency on Cloudflare. Despite being built with a multi-region and multi-cloud architecture, Downdetector relies on Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, and Bot Protection. This decision is drive