Cloudflare, one big oga for internet infrastructure, don beg people again after another small outage wey happen on Friday disturb many popular websites. Services like LinkedIn, Zoom, Canva, Shopify and Downdetector been dey shake for about 30 minutes as over quarter of Cloudflare traffic bend small.
Na the second time within one month wey the company dey experience this kind wahala, and e don raise questions about how reliable the service still be. Cloudflare talk say dem go release full report next week to breakdown wetin cause the issue and wetin dem wan do to avoid am next time.
According to the company, the latest outage happen because of some firewall adjustments wey dem make to protect customers from one new software problem. Dem emphasise say no be cyberattack cause am. Earlier that same day, Cloudflare still report another small issue wey affect some of their API services.
Even though this one no reach the major outage of November, the one wey affect X, OpenAI, Spotify and plenty online games, e still make tech experts dey wonder wetin dey really go on for Cloudflare side. The November incident na one configuration file wey too big cause crash for their system.
Some tech people dey talk say if Cloudflare continue dey get outages, companies fit begin think twice about depending on one service too much. Steven Murdoch, one computer science professor for UCL, yarn say two outages close to each other fit mean deeper software problem, or maybe just bad luck, nobody sure yet.
Others believe say the wahala just show how centralised internet don be. Cloudflare dey serve nearly 20% of websites for the world, so any small shake from their side dey scatter plenty places. One expert talk say these big companies don grow so large that once dem sneeze, the whole internet catch cold.
Cloudflare don assure people say dem dey already work on better system resilience and dey reach out to customers wey the two outages affect. The company dey handle billions of cyber-attacks daily and dey make over $500 million every quarter — so dem still remain one of the strongest players for global internet infrastructure.
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