Major internet platforms are experiencing service disruptions on the morning of Nov. 18, following a reported outage by Cloudflare. Here's what we know.

Services from Cloudflare, a software company, underpin thousands of websites, including X, Spotify and OpenAI. The company said a crash in a software system was to blame.

Cloudflare suffered an outage on Tuesday, disrupting services for thousands of users across websites that rely on the company’s network infrastructure.

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure platform that powers many popular websites, including Spotify, OpenAI, League of Legends, and more. Cloudflare said the outage was resolved as of 9:30 a.m. EST, and all services would return to normal over the next several hours.

Issues at Cloudflare, an internet services company, disrupted wide swaths of the internet across the globe and right here in Ohio before it was restored late in the morning of Nov. 18. Several popular websites and apps were experiencing outages the morning of Nov. 18, according to Downdetector, a site that tracks outages across the internet.

I n a post on X, formerly Twitter, Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht says “we failed our customers and the broader Internet” when a Cloudflare issue “impacted large amounts of traf

Thousands of people reported issues on popular apps and websites during the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 18. Here's what to know on the Cloudflare outage.