Major websites and services across the internet are down due to a hosting-platform outage

No, it's not just you - major websites across the internet are down as of Tuesday morning.

That's because Cloudflare is experiencing issues, according to the website-hosting platform itself and hundreds of tweets from frustrated social media users.

Cloudflare is an internet-hosting platform that many internet services rely on to remain functioning and protected in the case of a distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attack. An outage from Cloudflare affects internet services globally. 

Flightradar, a site that tracks flights, is down, for example:

And so is Coinbase Pro, a cryptocurrency service: 

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