EDITOR’S NOTE: Cloudflare Outage Impacts Millions of Websites, Including GoLocal

EDITOR’S NOTE: Cloudflare Outage Impacts Millions of Websites, Including GoLocal

We apologize for the delay. At GoLocal, we take great pride in being the first to bring you local news, and this morning, we were delayed.

 

Cloudflare is a company that provides a global network of services to make websites and apps more secure, performant, and reliable.

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On Tuesday morning, it had its own problems, going down for about three hours, impacting X (Twitter), ChatGPT, and GoLocalProv.com.

 

Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy and Content Delivery Network (CDN), meaning it sits between a website's server and its users to filter traffic, protect against cyberattacks like DDoS, and speed up loading times by caching content.

 

“We apologize,” said Josh Fenton, CEO of GoLocal. “But everything is back up and running normally.”