Cloudflare, the web services provider, on Tuesday experienced an outage, which rendered numerous websites and services, including X, ChatGPT, and Letterboxd, inaccessible. At 3:48 a.m. PT, the company released a statement on its system status page indicating that it was aware of the issue and has started an investigation to know what caused the outage. “Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing,” the statement read. “We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.”
00:00Well, well, well, if you are facing problems in posting on X or if you are getting late and the open AI is checked, GPT is not working, don't be surprised because this is happening at the back end.
00:15Users are reporting lag, delays and no success, no luck while using these websites where you can either use the social media or maybe post something.
00:28Alina, my colleague is here. Alina, why is this happening? There is a company called Cloudflare, which is behind hosting these portals, giving them space.
00:38What is it and what's the situation?
00:40So Cloudflare is basically a company which works behind the scenes and most of the websites are run by that particular company.
00:48So currently X is down, chat GPT is down, even perplexity is down.
00:52So this outrage has been since Tuesday morning, it is being set and all the major internet services, world's biggest websites are run by this company.
01:04So at this point of time, everything is down, nothing is working.
01:07When you go to any of the websites like X, you can't see anything that is, you can't refresh anything, you can't search for anything.
01:15Nothing is working right now.
01:17Right, right. So X users, OpenAI users, perplexity and so much so.
01:23The Amazon pages also are not loading. In fact, you can't order. Possibly your orders could also be delayed.
01:30So brace for the impact here. And this is not something that the world has seen for the first time.
01:36We have seen it in the past also. And trust me, I don't want to jinx it, but there are possibilities.
01:42This is the new age warfare to disrupt the proceedings, the very backbone of an American company or a Russian company.
01:50And this is the new age warfare. Nothing can be ruled out.
01:53Thanks for watching. This is Pankaj Mishra for One India.
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