A second Cloudflare outage in two weeks has taken multiple sites and services down, including Zendesk, OKCupid, Peloton and even our own site. Affected apps and websites were either unable to properly load or showed a “502 Gateway Error.” Ironically, even the site DownDetector, which is commonly used to check web service disruptions, was affected.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in a tweet that the outage is not due to an attack but a server overload. “Massive spike in CPU usage caused primary and backup systems to fall over,” he wrote, adding that the company is still investigating the root cause.
Cloudflare is down across the board, and many sites are not loading as a result. No word yet on the cause. Cloudflare says it's working on the issue. https://t.co/IDR17l2o7A
— briankrebs (@briankrebs) July 2, 2019
Cloudflare has implemented a fix, and services are starting to come back online, though connection may still be intermittent. The company did not say whether the outage is related to the one on June 24th.
