Cloudflare outage knocks hundreds of websites offline

Hundreds of websites were knocked offline on Tuesday morning after an outage at web infrastructure service Cloudflare (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Hundreds of websites were knocked offline after an outage at web infrastructure service Cloudflare.

Internet users and web monitoring service Down Detector reported that a number of sites, including messaging platform Discord, Shopify and others, were having issues on Tuesday morning.