Analysis
"Protective barrier." How Cloudflare came about and why its failure "took down" thousands of websites around the world
The problems at Cloudflare arose less than a month after outages at other cloud service providers, Amazon and Microsoft.

Few people knew about its existence until it broke down. Thousands of websites around the world, including Google services, GPT chat, and social network X, stopped working for several hours on November 18.
Users saw a message on their screens saying that everything was fine with their browser and the server of the website they were trying to access, but something was wrong with Cloudflare.
What is the story behind Cloudflare? Why did it take down so many websites? And who profits from it?
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