A wave of global website failures rippled across the internet this afternoon as Cloudflare , one of the world's most widely used web infrastructure services, confirmed it was facing a technical outage affecting users worldwide, including South Africa.
Platforms such as X and the popular film-review site Letterboxd were among those showing error messages as the disruption spread.
The outage quickly drew attention because Cloudflare's systems underpin everything from security protections to traffic stability for thousands of websites.