Due to Microsoft server down, the world has slowed down today i.e. on 19th July. Due to Microsoft server down, flight operations at airports have stopped, banks, IT and many other institutions have been affected. Not only this, work has stopped at most places in many countries including India. But do you know that a few years ago there was a Cloudflare outage, due to which many websites around the world stopped working. Today we will tell you what was Cloudflare outage, due to which many websites stopped working.
Cloudflare Outrage
Today, most of the world’s data is present on internet servers. If there is a disruption on any major website or search engine in the world, including Microsoft, the speed of the world stops. Because all work is done through the internet. Let us tell you that in both June 2021 and 2022, many websites around the world had come to a standstill due to Cloudflare outage.
Let us tell you that Cloudflare outage happened on 8 June 2021. During that time, Spotify, Pinterest, Twitch, Reddit etc. were also affected due to Fastly’s outage. Apart from this, news portals like CNN, Financial Times, The Guardian, BBC New York Times, etc. news websites were down for a long time. Let us tell you that Fastly is also a CDN.
Apart from this, after the Cloudflare outage on 21 June 2022, many websites of the world came to a standstill simultaneously. Let us tell you that Cloudflare is a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Due to the downtime of Cloudflare, sites like Discord, Canva, Streamyard and Nothing were down for about an hour. After Cloudflare went down, the message of “500 Internal Server Error” was being received on many websites. When it went down, Discord, Zerodha, Shopify, Amazon Web Services, Twitter, Canva and some mobile games also came to a standstill.
What is a Content Delivery Network?
Content Delivery Network is also called Content Distribution Network. You connect to a website through this network. Usually this network connects many servers to each other. The main job of CDN is to connect to the nearest network to the user and provide him content quickly. The speed of a website also depends on CDN. CDN is designed in such a way that users get minimum latency, latency means the time in which you connect to a network.
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