Another Cloudflare outage hit sites around the world on Friday

Cloudflare, which manages the Internet infrastructure for much of the world's Web sites, announced Friday that it has fixed an issue related to its user dashboard and related applications.

Shortly before that, several global websites stopped working, causing Cloudflare shares to fall as much as 4.5 percent in pre-market trading. After the announcement of the deployed fix and its monitoring, the stock erased some of the losses and only weakened by around two percent.

The outage also hit well-known services including monitoring portal Downdetector, the LinkedIn network, crypto exchange Coinbase and platform Substack.

The incident came less than three weeks after a similar outage at Cloudflare, which the firm at the time described as unacceptable given the importance of its services.

Cloudflare provides web traffic management and protection for about a fifth of all websites in the world. In addition to speeding up and stabilising sites, it also provides protection against DDoS attacks, in which attackers try to overwhelm a site with an enormous number of requests in order to take it down.

(cnbs, lud)