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Is Shopify down? Major websites hit by mass Cloudflare outage

Cloudflare down: Internet stops working properly amid major outage
  • Cloudflare has experienced a significant outage, causing numerous websites to go offline.
  • Affected platforms included Shopify, X (formerly Twitter), Substack, Canva, and even the outage tracking site Down Detector.
  • Users attempting to access these sites were met with a "500 internet server error" message.
  • This incident marks the second major technical issue for Cloudflare within a period of just two-and-a-half weeks.
  • Cloudflare said at 9.33am GMT: “Cloudflare is investigating an increased level of errors for customers running Workers scripts. We are working to analyse and mitigate this problem.”

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