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.

Hundreds of thousands of companies rely on the network management company to route online traffic. It’s the internet backbone that broke.

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 massive technical failure at Cloudflare, a critical internet infrastructure provider, caused widespread outages for major platforms including OpenAI

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.

Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all things home internet. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a master's degree. Cierra is passionate about social justice issues, fiber-optic internet ...

Cloudflare is a cornerstone of modern internet infrastructure or a collection of many parts of the internet. It is a company that many people may not even notice, but whose impact is felt every time they visit a website.

Major internet platforms are experiencing service disruptions on the morning of Nov. 18, following a reported outage by Cloudflare.

Are broadband options limited around you? Perhaps you're just tired of your current provider? Here's what 5G home internet offers. Trey Paul is a CNET senior editor covering broadband. His 20+ years of experience as a writer and editor include time at the ...