Internet Backbone Wobbles: What the Cloudflare Outage Tells Us About Web Fragility. When a key player in the internet ecosystem stumbles, the online world pays the price

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Imagine waking up one morning and discovering half the websites you visit don’t load—no “404”, just blank or “500 Internal Server Error”. That’s what happened when Cloudflare, a company responsible for managing traffic for about one in five websites globally, experienced a widespread outage.

The outage started with what the company described as an “internal service degradation”—not a cyberattack, but a failure in its software systems triggered by an oversized configuration file.

Sites ranging from major AI-platforms to social networks and e-commerce portals were affected. Users worldwide received error messages or couldn’t reach their usual destinations. The internet’s backbone had tripped… and we felt it.

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