Comment by MrJohz

> The result is that web browsing in Spain on weekends, when football is on, is severely impaired, with thousands of web sites going down as matches play.

Aaah, this explains some stuff. I'm on holiday in Spain right now, and a bunch of little blogs and similar sites just don't work at all for some reason. I bet they're hosted on Cloudflare Pages or using Cloudflare as a CDN layer.

I assumed it was just the hotel WiFi doing something weird!