If you're not familiar with Cloudflare, you're not alone. Often described as "the biggest company you've never heard of," Cloudflare manages and secures traffic for roughly 20 percent of the web.

Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal into Wi-Fi, allowing phones, laptops, TVs and other devices to connect without cables. In short, the internet provides the connection, and Wi-Fi makes it accessible to your devices wirelessly.

A global internet outage on Tuesday took down apps from X to ChatGPT. The root cause wasn't a server glitch or cyber attack. It was Cloudflare, the little-known internet giant that quietly powers nearly millions of websites worldwide.

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Cloudflare is one of the most reliable infrastructure providers, and its Content Delivery Network has long ensured that websites are replicated across multiple servers worldwide, providing fast loading times for users everywhere.

Thousands of people reported issues on popular apps and websites during the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 18. Here's what to know on the Cloudflare outage.