Cloudflare is "aware of, and investigating" a server issue that's causing problems for popular websites and social platforms.

Issues at Cloudflare, an internet services company, disrupted wide swaths of the internet across the globe and right here in Ohio before it was restored late in the morning of Nov. 18. Several popular websites and apps were experiencing outages the morning of Nov. 18, according to Downdetector, a site that tracks outages across the internet.

A Cloudflare software failure caused major sites like Spotify, X and ChatGPT to go dark, highlighting the internet’s growing centralization.

Thousands of social media users have reported issues with X within the last few hours due to a major Cloudflare outage. On Downdetector, there was a peak of nearly 5,000 reports, just before midday. However,

Officials with Cloudflare say they have fixed an issue that resulted in a huge web outage that lasted for hours. Users visiting various sites, including X, ChatGPT, DoorDash, Ikea and Indeed were met with messages during the outage.