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Interestingly, Cloudflare had earlier posted that it was planning “scheduled maintenance” on some of its servers – could this have caused the issue?
“Traffic might be re-routed from this location, hence there is a possibility of a slight increase in latency during this maintenance window for end-users in the affected region. For PNI / CNI customers connecting with us in this location, please make sure you are expecting this traffic to fail over elsewhere during this maintenance window as network interfaces in this datacentre may become temporarily unavailable.”
If you’re not familiar with the company, Cloudflare provides a wide range of online infrastructure backing up some of the world’s biggest websites.
Cloudflare has confirmed the problem, posting at 11.48am GMT;
First off – the issue appears to have hit a number of major websites, including X, formerly known as Twitter, film reviewing site Letterboxd – and even outage tracker website DownDetector, which is making tracking the issue quite tricky for us…