Cloudflare down LIVE: LinkedIn, Deliveroo, Canva crash in new internet outage
Tech industry reactsColette Mason, author & AI consultant at Clever Clogs AI, explained why companies continue to use Cloudflare despite recent outages.She said: "If you're wondering why companies continue to use Cloudflare when it keeps going down, the first reason is speed. Cloudflare stores copies of websites on servers in hundreds of cities globally, so a user in Tokyo loads content from Tokyo, not London, significantly collapsing load times."The other reasons are security, as it blocks hackers or bots from websites before they can even knock on the door, and cost, as it filters out junk traffic and compresses data, meaning companies pay significantly less for bandwidth and server power."But, as we've seen again today, when Cloudflare stumbles, the ripple effect can be immediate and real and exposes how dangerously leveraged the global economy is."Instead of a fast, secure site, the world is greeted by a wall of '500 Internal Server Error' and '503 Service Unavailable' messages, instantly locking customers out and bringing businesses around the world to a grinding halt."
