New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- Zerodha founder and chief executive Nithin Kamath explained on Friday how traders can continue to manage their positions even if Cloudflare, a service that handles roughly a quarter of global internet traffic, experiences an outage.

Kamath said Cloudflare's vast footprint means any disruption can ripple across the internet, affecting "millions of websites and apps" at once. On Friday, a brief global slowdown hit several brokers and fintech platforms, including Zerodha's Kite.

To ensure traders are not left stranded during such incidents, Zerodha has created a WhatsApp-based backup system that operates independently of its main infrastructure.

Kite's web and mobile platforms rely on Cloudflare for security screening...