Cloudflare suffered an hours-long global outage, starting around 12am UTC / 5am ET, which brought down an enormous chunk of the Internet. This included, humorously, Down Detector. It also included (not so humorously to me) Daring Fireball, which has been routed through Cloudflare since 2018. My apologies if you tried to reach the site while it was down. (The whole outage occurred while I was asleep.) As of this writing, Cloudflare still hasn’t determined exactly what happened, but they’ve been updating their status report for the incident a few times per hour. The most recent update:
We continue to monitor the system through recovery and we are
seeing errors and latency return to normal levels. A full
post-incident investigation and details about the incident will be
made available asap.
