Millions of websites were down due to Cloudflare disruption
from David Wurm 
on July 02, 2019, 18:35 | Write a comment
On Tuesday afternoon, the content delivery network had Cloudflare with them Protrouble to fight. Due to incorrectly rolled out software, millions of websites were unavailable for a few minutes.
Many websites on the Internet use Cloudflare as protection against DDoS attacks or as a CDN for their own website. The latter can improve the loading time of the website by delivering content via several servers in the cache. Also others Internet security services and DNS services are offered by the company. There are currently around twelve million websites on Cloudflare. Today, however, there was a short time Prodifficult to call up numerous websites on the Internet. These were also Cloudflare customers who had a problem today. Everything has now been fixed.
Cloudflare disruption: Cloudflare due to softwareProproblem down
Today, shortly before 16:00 p.m., access to some homepages was no longer possible. Here one received the error “502 Bad Gateway Error”. Numerous blogs and websites in Germany and Austria were also affected. Some TechnikNews-Services - such as ours IP API - was also unavailable during this time. the TechnikNews-homepage wasn't from this one though Proproblem affected.
Our monitoring system gave the all-clear at around 16:13 p.m. (approx. 14 minutes later): the error had disappeared again. Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, also gave at around 16:22 p.m. on twitter green light again. "Appear to have mitigated the issue causing the outage. Traffic restored. Working now to restore all services globally, ”he wrote.
A few hours later, the cause of the Cloudflare disorder is now also known. The reason for this is said to have been incorrectly rolled out software, which brought the CPUs to their limit and caused a peak load. At least that's how you write on the Cloudflare Blog. After that, some servers went to their knees - the errors mentioned above are said to come from this exact cause. All affected websites are currently back online and the problem seems to have been resolved. We'll work to prevent these incidents and understand what's leading to this Proproblem could come. It should take up to 30 minutes for some websites Prohave given problems.
