A bug in CloudFlare
CloudFlare Inc, an Internet service meant to protect websites from going down, faced its own network issues on July 2, leading to several prominent sites – like blogging platform Medium and videogame chat provider Discord – being unavailable for some time.
A bug in CloudFlare’s software caused one part of its network to suck up computing resources from the rest of the company, leading thousands of websites around the world that rely on CloudFlare to go offline for as long as 30 minutes, chief executive officer Matthew Prince said in an interview. The problem wasn’t because of an outside attack, as was earlier speculated, Prince said.
