Down Detector
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:
We're currently experience issues with our services related to an outage at service provider Cloudflare. They are currently investigating the issue and working to mitigate the impact to users. We will update as we know more. Thank you for you patience.
- Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) July 2, 2019Cloudflare is down and causing Coinbase Pro to not be accessible ! don't panic thoughhttps://t.co/6viq1pYL6G#coinbase $BTC #crypto $ETH $LTC pic.twitter.com/UxWSlDkZfz
- CryptoParis [$BTC $RVN] (@crypto__paris) July 2, 2019