The outage affected websites such as the messaging service Discord and the e-commerce platform Shopify.
The National Rail Enquiries website was also offline and could have been affected, although it was already seeing an influx of traffic due to today’s rail strikes, which could have created connection problems.
The National Rail Enquiries website was also offline and could have been affected, although it was already seeing an influx of traffic due to today’s rail strikes, which could have created connection problems.
According to web monitoring service Down Detector and internet users, visitors to the site, and others got the error message “500 Internal Server Error.”
US-based Cloudflare reports that the issue has been rectified.
In a series of tweets, the company acknowledged that it was aware of the “present service issues” and stated that its team was “trying to resolve (them) as soon as possible.”
The U.S. firm is a content delivery service, and its technology serves to power many of the most popular websites that are visited daily by internet users.
