Zerodha, Groww down as Cloudfare outage takes out hundreds of websites

The Cloudfare outage, which afflicted hundreds of website, has affected India's biggest online brokers, including Zerodha and Groww Ltd.

Websites of most Indian online brokerages, including Zerodha and Groww, were down following the Cloudfare outage. (Unsplash)

“Due to a cross-platform downtime on Cloudflare, Kite is currently unavailable. Please use the Kite WhatsApp backup to manage your trades while we investigate,” Zerodha wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

According to complaints on social media platforms, including WhatsApp, X and Instagram, most online stockbroking platforms—Zerodha, Groww, Upstox, Fyers, Angel One—were showing “500 Internal Server Error”.