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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Robert Booth UK technology editor

Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet

Lava lamps are seen through a lobby window at the headquarters of Cloudflare in San Francisco
Cloudflare, ‘the biggest company you’ve never heard of’. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP

A key piece of the internet’s usually hidden infrastructure suffered a global outage on Tuesday, causing error messages to flash up across websites.

Cloudflare, a US company whose services include defending millions of websites against malicious attacks, experienced an unidentified problem that meant internet users could not access some of its customers’ websites.

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