Netflix suffers global outage

Netflix suffers global outage

Netflix suffered a global outage that affected the US, China, Canada, and Europe for hours last night.

Netflix suffered a global outage on its servers last night, Monday, October 18. The service is now back after several hours and affected thousands of its customers from the US, Canada, Europe, and China. The popular on-demand platform’s server outage was a massive problem for many, especially as it is one of the most popular streaming services available.

OTT or over-the-top media platforms like Netflix are all connected to the internet and use massive servers to put their movies on the air for people to stream, thus causing heavy traffic. However, if one of the servers or its network fails, it all topples down and is almost unusable, as the internet is a massive thing for the streaming platform.

Netflix’s servers were down, and it started at around 8:09 pm GMT according to a report by Down Detector’s page, as users have come on the platform to check and report the service. To their surprise, it was not an isolated case, as the outage has been seen by many and was experienced throughout Monday afternoon.

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