Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince has disclosed what caused its major service disruption that shut down parts of the internet for hours on Tuesday, describing it as the worst outage since 2019.
Several Nigerian websites on Cloudflare’s network experienced downtime or slow loading as part of a global outage, disrupting access to news media outlets and e-commerce platforms, and others across the country.
“Today was Cloudflare’s worst outage since 2019. We’ve had outages that have made our dashboard unavailable. Some have caused newer features to not be available for a period of time. But in the last 6+ years, we’ve not had another outage that has caused the majority of core traffic to stop flowing through our network,” the company stated.