Cloudflare began scheduled maintenance at its ORD data center in Chicago today (Friday) at 07:00 UTC. The work remained in progress at the time of publication.

Cloudflare also announced a separate maintenance window at its DTW data center in Detroit. The company said it “will be performing scheduled maintenance in DTW between 09:00 and 13:00 UTC.” No further service impact details were provided with the notice.

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During the Chicago maintenance window, several online platforms experienced temporary outages. The websites of CFD broker Skilling, prop firms The5ers and Topstep, and My Funded Futures were briefly inaccessible. LinkedIn was also affected. As of publishing, access to these services had been restored.

Cloudflare Maintenance Causes Temporary Network Disruptions

Cloudflare stated that “scheduled maintenance is currently in progress” and that it will “provide updates as necessary.”

Traffic from the Chicago location may be rerouted during this period. This could result in a “slight increase in latency” for users in the affected region.

Cloudflare also said some customers may experience temporary service changes. It warned that PNI and CNI customers should prepare for traffic to fail over to other locations, as “network interfaces in this data center may become temporarily unavailable.”

No service incidents "beyond the planned maintenance" were reported at the time of the update.

eToro provided an update on the incident, stating: “Earlier today, a temporary Cloudflare outage caused some pages and features to load slowly for a short period of time. The issue has now been fully resolved, and everything is back up and running normally.”

Brokers, Prop Firms Hit by Outage

Following a similar disruption in October at Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare experienced a technical fault last month that caused a three-hour outage.

The disruption affected broker websites, including Monaxa, Skilling.com, Xtrade, and FXPro, as well as social media platforms, crypto networks, and other online services.

Cloudflare said it is “aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers” and that “further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.” The incident underscores the reliance of brokers, crypto platforms, and other services on a small number of web infrastructure providers.