{"id":311175,"date":"2019-06-24T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T11:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=311175"},"modified":"2019-06-25T07:17:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T05:17:16","slug":"major-website-outage-due-to-cloudflare-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/311175-major-website-outage-due-to-cloudflare-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"Major outage for websites using Cloudflare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong> &#8211; Cloudflare has stated that Verizon was responsible for an outage which affected various Internet services, including Cloudflare. The downtime of affected websites which used Cloudflare&#8217;s security solution was attributed to these problems at Verizon.<\/p>\n<p>Various websites around the world were inaccessible yesterday due to network problems at Verizon, which affected websites which use Cloudflare&#8217;s security solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Attempting to access websites which use Cloudflare&#8217;s DNS or DDoS protection &#8211; including MyBroadband and Takealot &#8211; resulted in a &#8220;Connection timed out&#8221; error.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflarestatus.com\/incidents\/46z55mdhg0t5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>published<\/strong><\/a> an update to its status page during the outage stating that it was observing network connectivity issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/cloudflare\">DownDetector<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s outage map showed a surge in reports of problems with Cloudflare, and the company&#8217;s support staff confirmed the presence of network issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are currently aware of issues in network connectivity and our network operations team are engaged in restoring services,&#8221; the company said. &#8220;We will keep you notified as soon as we get updates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This issue has since been fixed for certain users, although it is unclear when services will be restored for all users.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cloudflare?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cloudflare<\/a> is a bit broken right now&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4SS2lt4Jf2\">pic.twitter.com\/4SS2lt4Jf2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Faulknor (@DanFaulknor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanFaulknor\/status\/1143110635229630464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cloudflare-Outage-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-311177\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cloudflare-Outage-map-640x375.jpg\" alt=\"Cloudflare Outage map\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cloudflare-Outage-map-640x375.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cloudflare-Outage-map-600x352.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cloudflare-Outage-map-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cloudflare-Outage-map-1200x703.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/311103-facebook-and-twitter-need-more-humans.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook and Twitter need more humans<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various websites around the world were inaccessible yesterday due to network problems at Verizon, which affected websites which use Cloudflare&#8217;s security solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":230835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[29694,59661,59663,3506],"class_list":["post-311175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-cloudflare","tag-down","tag-network-outage","tag-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311237,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311175\/revisions\/311237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}