Why the Internet Went Down Recently: CenturyLink

Widespread internet outages knocked down Cloudflare, the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Amazon, Hulu, and a slew of other sites on the morning of Aug 30, and it’s apparently all because of a single internet service provider: CenturyLink. Given that Cloudflare’s online security services are designed to keep websites up and running, when it went down, so did dozens of the popular sites and services that rely on it, including Discord, Feedly, and League of Legends. Cloudflare began seeing “an increased level of HTTP 5xx class errors” early Aug 30 morning. CenturyLink confirmed that its technicians were working to fix an IP outage, which was resolved shortly before noon that day.