Cloudflare said on Tuesday morning that it was "all hands on deck" trying to work out the cause of the outage.

For several hours Tuesday, a significant portion of the internet was unavailable in Cloudflare's worst outage since 2019.

A Cloudflare software failure caused major sites like Spotify, X and ChatGPT to go dark, highlighting the internet’s growing centralization.

Issues at Cloudflare, an internet services company, disrupted wide swaths of the internet across the globe and right here in Ohio before it was restored late in the morning of Nov. 18. Several popular websites and apps were experiencing outages the morning of Nov. 18, according to Downdetector, a site that tracks outages across the internet.

Cloudflare Inc is a US based company that provides content delivery network services, cybersecurity tools, and protection against distributed denial of service attacks, along with several other internet support services.

Major internet platforms are experiencing service disruptions on the morning of Nov. 18, following a reported outage by Cloudflare.

On DownDetector, the issues with X are being reported as 58% app problems and 32% web. Users are unable to access their accounts on the app or on desktop. It is now reported that X is beginning to operate as normal with users being able to access their accounts.

An internet service that helps power websites was experiencing "widespread" server errors Tuesday morning, reportedly causing major online outages. Cloudflare, which calls itself one of the largest internet networks in the world,