Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Bet365 and Leaves bet365 Users Offline

Cloudflare acknowledged widespread service issues on Friday that disrupted access to Bet365 and dozens of other sites and apps, with outage reports peaking in the early afternoon ET and easing later. The disruption affected online services used by consumers and businesses and happened amid maintenance activity at a Portland data center that may be related, but that link remains unclear at this time.

Cloudflare acknowledges service issues

Cloudflare posted that it was investigating problems with its services and network and warned users they might experience errors or timeouts reaching Cloudflare’s network. An update at 2: 45pm ET said the company was continuing to restore service to impacted customers. A separate update noted an acknowledgment at 6: 00pm ET that customers were seeing an unusually high number of 403 error messages.

Bet365 access problems reported

Users reported trouble reaching Bet365 on Friday afternoon, and the betting site was among the services named as disrupted. Some users also reported problems with other consumer-facing services during the outage window. The company working to restore service said it was focused on returning impacted customers to their normal experience.

Impact on popular apps and sites

The outage affected a range of popular online services and apps that rely on the infrastructure provider for routing, performance and security. Users reported difficulties with food-delivery and gaming services, and other business and productivity platforms were noted as impacted in coverage of the event. The outage did not appear to reach the scale of an earlier multi-site incident later in the year, when thousands of users were affected across many major services.

Outage timeline and indicators

Outage reports on an outage-tracking site peaked at around 2: 00pm ET before beginning to fall shortly after. As of Friday afternoon the same tracker showed reports peaking at less than 500 for this incident, compared with a prior outage when reports reached around 11, 000. Cloudflare said it had performed scheduled maintenance at a Portland data center earlier in the day; whether that maintenance contributed to the disruption is unclear.

What to watch next

Restoration messages from the infrastructure provider indicated continuing recovery efforts as of the mid-afternoon ET update. Observers should watch further status updates from the provider and outage-reporting channels for any resurgence of issues. If maintenance at the Portland data center is later confirmed as a contributing factor, follow-up notices could explain the scope and corrective steps taken. For end users, retrying access after the provider’s next service-status update is the recommended immediate action.

• Key takeaways: outage peaked early afternoon ET; Bet365 and several consumer apps affected; provider working to restore service.