What is Cloudflare: Here’s why it has brought down most of your internet

A massive technical failure at Cloudflare, a critical internet infrastructure provider, caused widespread outages for major platforms including OpenAI, Twitter (X), and Spotify. The incident, which began around 12:00 UTC on November 18, impacted services that rely on Cloudflare’s CDN, DDoS protection, and DNS services. Cloudflare has confirmed the disruption and is actively working to restore services.