What went wrong at Cloudflare?

You may have noticed that yesterday ChatGPT, X and a number of other websites -- including BetaNews for a while -- were unavailable due to an issue with online security service Cloudflare. So what went wrong? According to the company the problem occurred after a configuration file designed to handle threat traffic did not work as intended and ‘triggered a crash’ in its software handling traffic for its wider services. “We apologize to our customers and the Internet in general for letting you down today,' the company says in an official statement. 'Given the importance of Cloudflare's services, any outage… [Continue Reading]