Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when
TL;DR
Cloudflare's recent outage, affecting major sites like X and ChatGPT, highlights the risk of relying on single providers. Experts urge companies to build redundancy and resiliency into their systems to prevent future disruptions.
Cloudflare has become the latest web infrastructure giant to collapse in the span of a month, replacing entire sites, including X, ChatGPT, Spotify, Canva, and even the outage-tracking DownDetector, with an error message for hours this morning. It's the latest in a string of outages that Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and co-founder of the internet performance monitoring platform Catchpoint, says should be a "wake-up call" for companies.
"Everybody's putting all their eggs in one basket, and then they're surprised when there is a problem," Daoudi says. "It's on the company's side to make sure that they have redundancy and resiliency."
The outage comes …