Cloudflare outage disrupts internet, makes websites unreachable

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The issue was localised only to some geographies, according to the company

Web-infrastructure giant Cloudflare suffered an outage on Friday, causing a large number of websites to become inaccessible for some time. The issue continued for nearly 25 minutes before it was...

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