A large part of the Internet world is currently facing ‘Error 500’ and loads of websites, applications and games are facing problems loading.
These services range from Discord, Amazon Web Services, Shopify and Coinbase to popular games like League of Legends, Minecraft, and Valorant.
Content delivery network Cloudflare, which supports all these services, has been found to be responsible for the problems faced by the websites.
What is 500 Internal Server Error?
Users have to face 500 internal server error while browsing the internet, when the web server is facing problems.
Error 500 is displayed when the problem with the server cannot be pinpointed to a specific error and the exact cause of the problem is not known.
This is the reason why it is not easy to fix and it can appear due to many server related problems.
Different messages are shown on the screen
When a website receives a 500 internal server error, users often see the name of this error along with a message that says ‘Oops, something was wrong’.
Different websites adopt different methods to display this error on the screen.
Apart from ‘500 Internal Server Error’, you may see messages like ‘HTTP 500 – Internal Server Error’, ‘Temporary Error (500)’, ‘HTTP 500 Internal Error’, ‘500 Error’ and ‘HTTP Error 500’ on the screen .
In many cases the error gets fixed like this
Often, just refreshing the webpage to fix the 500 internal server error will do the trick. Apart from this, you can try to access the website a few times.
Sometimes deleting the browser ‘s cookies or even troubleshooting it as a 504 gateway timeout error is enough.
If the error is visible even after trying all the methods, then you will have to wait for its fix from the server side.
What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest Internet networks, has been blamed for the current outage.
Millions of websites and online services are connected to the content delivery network Cloudflare.
This company has data centers in more than 270 cities around the world and through its network delivers the content of websites to the users.
The company is working on fixing the current outage.
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The company told everyone the reason for seeing the error
Cloudflare explained, “ In the early days of the Internet , when you loaded a website, the request was sent from the computer to the server, which in turn loaded the web-page. The server crashed or became unresponsive when a lot of requests came in at once.” Companies like Cloudflare were started to avoid such problems.”
The company said that a critical P0 incident has been observed in its services, which has affected network connectivity.
The Cloudflare team is working on fixing the current outage. According to the company, it has been fixed to a great extent and soon users will start getting its results and websites will start loading as before.
