Cloudflare is one of the most popular content delivery networks or CDNs and home to many web pages around the world. Whenever a problem arises in these types of services, many sites can be affected. That is what has happened in the last few hours. Many web pages around the world have had problems with loading times and that is due to latency issues affecting Cloudflare.
Latency Issues and Load Times at Cloudflare
In the last hours, many users have seen that the web pages they were visiting have taken a long time to load. At least more than usual. The problem is because Cloudflare you have experienced latency failures on your network. These failures have been widespread and affect the loading times of websites that depend on this service.
This problem started late at night on European time. Has affected thousands of websites from many regions of the world. In some areas they have not been able to access the web pages directly, while in others the problem has caused them to load very slowly.
From Cloudflare they quickly began to make a monitoring to analyze the issue and try to resolve it as soon as possible. Although many users were affected and reported problems accessing a website or online service, this error, as indicated by Cloudflare, has already been resolved and does not seem to be causing slowness in the sites that were affected.
In another article we explain what CDNs are for. There we talked about how important they are today and it helps us understand why such a problem can become so serious and affect so many websites around the world.
Investigation of the problem
Cloudflare launched a informational message where they indicated that they were investigating the problem to solve it as soon as possible. They claimed that it was a generalized error in their services and network. This could cause users to experience longer than normal waiting times when trying to open a website or even failure to load.
But beyond this problem that has affected the loading speed, they have also detected errors that affect the CDN cache. However, once again from Cloudflare they have indicated that they have already found what the error is and are working on fixing it.
Keep in mind that it is not the first time that a problem has occurred, so it puts the operation of millions of web pages around the world at risk. We have seen on other occasions DDoS attacks that have also affected Cloudflare and that can also shut down this service.
In this case, it is a problem that has mainly affected the loading speed of web pages. Although it has also made it impossible to even access certain sites, which directly did not show response when trying to enter.
