A host of websites went down today, only three weeks after previous problems at Cloudflare hit the likes of X, ChatGPT and Spotify.

This latest event follows hot on the heels of Nov. 18, when Cloudflare was hit by a global outage for several hours.

A 30-minute Cloudflare outage on December 5 disrupted numerous online platforms, including major Indian trading apps like Zerodha, Angel One, and Groww, alongside global services like ChatGPT and Spotify.

Social media site X and music streaming platform Spotify have been impacted by outages, causing chaos for users. X is reportedly down due to a "service outage", according to Down Detector, which is said to be linked to Cloudflare disruption.

Cloudflare is an internet management company that provides services like cybersecurity, Domain Name Service and wide area network service (WAN).

DOZENS of websites were crippled by a major outage which sparked chaos across the globe. Zoom and LinkedIn were among a number of sites hit when Cloudflare – an internet network

Cloudflare is having an outage which means the internet feels like so much of what we use every day is down. Huge affected property included Canva, Fortnite, Roblox, Shopify, Twitter / X and potentially ChatGPT. Worse still, our friend DownDetector isn’t even working properly and when you can’t check what’s down on there you know it’s bad.

Cloudflare essentially services as Internet infrastructure, one that many websites use to improve their performance and functionality. However, before 7 a.m., the company reported being aware of "an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers.

Internet users have reported outages across multiple web services that operate using Cloudflare - including Zoom, Canva and LinkedIn and perhaps more ironically - Down Detector.