Cloudflare was down for several hours on Friday evening, sparking a widespread internet outage, hitting many major websites including Bet365 and Uber Eats. According to Downdetector, which tracks issues with web platforms, the network saw a high number of complaints this evening.

As of 8.07pm oon Friday, 3998 people had reported issues with the service. Cloudflare operates as a content delivery network and distributed DNS (domain name server). Its services protect website owners from peak loads, comment spam attacks and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.

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