Much of the internet has been experiencing issues today as tech company Cloudflare suffered a major technical problem.

X (formerly Twitter) and ChatGPT are some of the sites which could not show all of their content when the problems arose.

A spokesperson for Cloudflare told The Guardian earlier today that they “saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services beginning at 11:20am”.

This then “caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors”, they noted.

“While most traffic for most services continued to flow as normal, there were elevated errors across multiple Cloudflare services.

“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”

But what is Cloudflare to begin with, and why does it affect so much of the internet if the company experiences an issue?

What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare describes itself as “one global cloud........

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