A diversity of downtime: the Q4 2024 Internet disruption summary
2025-01-28
After a rather busy third quarter, the fourth quarter of 2024 saw significantly fewer Internet disruptions....
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2025-01-28
After a rather busy third quarter, the fourth quarter of 2024 saw significantly fewer Internet disruptions....
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On October 30, 2024, cloud hosting provider OVHcloud (AS16276) suffered a brief but significant outage. Within this post, we review Cloudflare’s perspective on this outage....
2024-10-29
The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. Underlying causes included government-directed shutdowns, power outages, hurricane damage, terrestrial and submarine cable cuts, military action, and more....
2024-10-01
On Monday, September 30, customers on Verizon’s mobile network in multiple cities across the United States reported experiencing a loss of connectivity. HTTP request traffic data from Verizon’s mobile ASN (AS6167) showed nominal declines across impacted cities. ...
2024-09-05
Cloudflare brings visibility to the practice of connection tampering as observed from our global network....
August 13, 2024 2:00 PM
The traffic graphs on Cloudflare Radar have been enhanced to include HTTP request traffic. This new metric complements the existing bytes-based “HTTP traffic” view, and the new graphs can be found on Radar’s Overview and Traffic pages....
July 30, 2024 8:46 PM
This blog post explores the impact of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics on Internet traffic in France and beyond, concentrating on web activity during the opening ceremony and the initial days of competition. Let the games continue....
July 16, 2024 1:00 PM
Government directed shutdowns and cable cuts were both significant sources of Internet outages in Q2 2024. This post explores these disruptions, as well as others caused by power outages, maintenance, technical problems, military action, and unknown causes...
June 21, 2024 1:00 PM
Similar to actions taken over the last several years, governments in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria have again disrupted Internet connectivity nationwide in an attempt to prevent cheating on exams. We investigate how these disruptions were implemented, and their impact...
July 24, 2023 1:00 PM
Today, we are improving our Domain Rankings page and adding Trending Domains lists...