Whoops, a major internet services company just went down

A major player in keeping the internet running smoothly appeared to experience some problems of its own on Tuesday, with reports emerging that Cloudflare went down across parts of the U.S. 

You may not be familiar with the name, but you have most certainly run across the work of the company that protects against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and prides itself on making "the Internet Work the Way It Should for Anything Online." 

"Anything," apparently, failed to include Cloudflare itself on Tuesday — at least for a short period of time.