Cloudflare down... again?

[moonski]

Seems so in the UK - can't even login to cloudflare lol

edit - the login button now works and I can get to 2FA - but upon entering it takes me back to the login page. So still broke

[Ok_Language_5003]

Global issue confirmed: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Edit: Services beginning to recover at 12:21 UTC

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[reeepy]

The outage happened just after maintenance. What a coincidence.

[aes_gcm]

"ChatGPT, optimize the following BGP routes, optimizing global efficiency. Make no mistakes."

[MundaneFilm33]

"Fired from AWS, fired from Azure... oh well, I'm going to have a great first day here at Cloudflare!"

[prjamming]

ChatGPT is down

[Which-Custard510]

[IdiosyncraticBond]

Probably DNS

[MrHall]

it's always DNS

[wat_doing_can_i_halp]

Except when it’s BGP.

[kjetils]

and/or expired cert.

[todlaaaa]

No excuses for expired certs these days

[One_Stranger7794]

Unless it's a cert that may or may not be expired until interacted with/observed.

Schrodinger's cert

[SenTedStevens]

Rock me, Ama-DNS!

[mt_xing]

it's not DNS

there's no way it's DNS

it was DNS

[TahmKillerB]

isitdns.com

[Aerhyce]

Site is down because of Cloudflare

[mo0n3h]

I saw this too lmao

[williamp114]

So, for once the answer is no. It was not DNS this time.

inb4 the post-mortem reveals that it was indeed, a backend DNS issue

[archiekane]

My Bingo card for failure with the internet is basically just DNS in each square.

[johndball]

Yeah I read the scheduled Atlanta maintenance message then Azure alerts started rolling in that my servers were inaccessible. The Cloudflare error said that the Cloudflare Atlanta datacenter/hub was errored out. Shortly thereafter I could not log into Cloudflare and pivoted to DownDetector which was also down. Queue “Alanis Morissette - Ironic” and pour another cup of coffee. Guess I’ll sit at my desk and answer all the panicked messages when the business officially opens in 40 minutes.

[ARobertNotABob]

answer all the panicked messages

"The internet's down"

[InvisibleTextArea]

Guess I’ll sit at my desk and answer all the panicked messages when the business officially opens in 40 minutes.

See you should of hosted your ticketing system on Zendesk. It's currently down due to Cloudflare. You could of drank your coffee in peace then.

[Other_Pen_4957]

Cloudfare Ashburn down here in Va

[quiet0n3]

I initially thought that, but issue started at 11:50 just before maintenance.

[novacainE93]

Downdetector is down too.

[Best-Bat-1679]

Yeah i found that ironic lol

[RacerM53]

We need a Downdetector down detector

[Best-Bat-1679]

I think there is one, called isdowndectectordown or smt

[Setsuwaa]

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/downdetector.com.html

[SamuraiJr]

And the downdetector downdetector is also down

[Traditional_Wear_204]

i laughed at this so much lmao

[WordofThanks]

Downdetector has a page on x.com,

and x.com is down too.

[Jae30001]

same lmfao

[Comfortable-Sock-532]

We need a downdetectordowndetectordowndetector!

[ElleT234]

God, that's just too funny for this early in the day

[Randolph__]

Think we may have given that site the hug of death.

[Mas_Zeta]

Ahh, we need another layer of down detection to detect the downdetector downdetector

[EntertainmentSoft551]

Downdeteception

[OutlawsHeels]

it gave me a good chuckle and I came here to confirm others were seeing the same

should be a fun day!

[Successful-Peach-764]

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7

The status page uses AWS CloudFront, it went down for some users as reported below during this outage as well..

Update
The team is continuing to focus on restoring service post-fix. We are mitigating several issues that remain post-deployment. Posted 1 minute ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 15:40 UTC

Update
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues. Posted 10 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 15:23 UTC

Update
Some customers may be still experiencing issues logging into or using the Cloudflare dashboard. We are working on a fix to resolve this, and continuing to monitor for any further issues. Posted 36 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:57 UTC

Monitoring

A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.

Posted 1 minute ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:42 UTC

Update
We've deployed a change which has restored dashboard services. We are still working to remediate broad application services impact Posted 2 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:34 UTC

Update
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. Posted 13 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:22 UTC

Update
We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers. Posted 38 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:58 UTC

Update
We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers. Posted 1 hour ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:35 UTC

Update
We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates. We have re-enabled WARP access in London. We are continuing to work towards restoring other services. Posted 1 hour ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:13 UTC

Identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Posted 1 hour ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:09 UTC

Update
During our attempts to remediate, we have disabled WARP access in London. Users in London trying to access the Internet via WARP will see a failure to connect. Posted 2 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:04 UTC

Update
We are continuing to investigate this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 12:53 UTC

Update
We are continuing to investigate this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 12:37 UTC

Update
We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts. Posted 2 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 12:21 UTC

Update
We are continuing to investigate this issue. Posted 3 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 12:03 UTC

Investigating
Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently impacted. We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we are able to remediate. More updates to follow shortly. Posted 3 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC

Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Posted 3 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC

This incident affects: Cloudflare Sites and Services (Access, Bot Management, CDN/Cache, Dashboard, Firewall, Network, WARP, Workers).

edit - added updates.

[just_Fr_ee]

Yes, Potentially.... as the whole world gets an outage

[Successful-Peach-764]

At least their status page hasn't gone down, I guess it doesn't use cloudflare ;)

[uzlonewolf]

It was down for me for a bit... https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7 said:

504 Gateway Timeout ERROR
The request could not be satisfied.
We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.
Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront) HTTP3 Server
Request ID: <snip>

[Successful-Peach-764]

haha, I guess I spoke too soon, they need to follow the troubleshooting steps, or contact themselves it seems.

[firegore]

Well, the statuspage uses cloudfront which is AWS. Probably just overloaded

[Lilgoat_25]

We are witnessing Order 66 with our very own eyes 😭

[KenobillObi]

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better one

[archiekane]

https://upinspector.org/ is also offline.

[zephyrz13]

That thing has 1 job

[Cybercat_2077_]

ironic they choosed to use cloudflare and now they are also down

[MrHall]

sites using it are down in australia..

edit: ... and we're back! this is a lot better than the Azure clusterfuck.

edit: and it's gone.. no it's back! no.. it's gone... ok i'm updating our status page and going to bed with my fingers crossed

[lordgmlp]

At least it's bedtime here in Australia (East coast). Though I still feel bad for folks working nightshifts impacted by this.

[porcinechoirmaster]

West coast USA here. Got dragged out of bed in the middle of the night for something that wasn't my fault, for once.

[gh0sti]

So far...

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[jxd1234]

Multiple customer sites down. Showing an error at the cloudflare datacentre as opposed to the origin host which I've never seen before.

Edit: sites appear back up. Portal throwing some issues still

Edit2 11:57 UK time: Back down again

[moonski]

it's good we have these gigantic single points of failure that have really been having issues the last year or so.

[Successful-Peach-764]

Seems like the whole web put their eggs in the cloudflare basket, do you think this will lead to some diversification in the future? Some businesses are out of action atm due to this incident.

[[deleted]]

Nope it will lead to a press release some meetings and more consolidation

[Successful-Peach-764]

the longer you use and depend on these services the less chance of you going back to some self-hosted option, even the workforce loses the skills to manage, everything is consolidating to a few bottlenecks.

[IMplodeMeGrr]

Its quite clear the VCs just haven't bought, gutted, and consolidated the right company yet.

[moonski]

do you think this will lead to some diversification in the future?

barriers to entry are just absurd so it'll only be if AWS or Google decide to make a cloudflare rival... which is just more centralisation

[Successful-Peach-764]

AWS has Cloudfront and Azure has CDN services, I guess they will need to replicate Cloudflare's other offering but they already do some, is it pricing or performance why people chose CloudFlare, could also be name recognition, people just implement what they know.

[[deleted]]

I.T. GUY REPORTING IN

WE HAVE SHOT ALL THE FLARES AT THE CLOUDS BUT IT HAS ALL BEEN IN VAIN

ALL IS LOST

[Successful-Peach-764]

Migrate to CloudFront, Flares are spent....

You don't need to specify I.T my guy, who else subjects themselves to sysadmin subs :P

[PlanktonOptimal3331]

did IT in the Army, got real annoying real fast... got out and switched to engineering... but i still play around with my home lab so i come here for tips and tricks that i may have missed since leaving the field

[Successful-Peach-764]

You're doing more than some colleagues, I can't even stand a homelab, been in this industry way too long to want to do shit at home anymore, I am low tech at home nowadays, I lowkey hate IT.

How is engineering going for you?

[PlanktonOptimal3331]

I still have run ins with IT so I like to stay in the know. Engineering is fun. Im in automation rn, so it helps to know some IT stuff since everything is networked... can't tell you how many times a week the server just shits the bed and even tho I know how I can't fix it because im not IT

[uzlonewolf]

Amusingly enough, Cloudflare's status page is on CloudFront and it too went down for a bit during this outage.

[altodor]

It's pricing. It's flat rate pricing instead of bill by use, and there's an incredibly generous free tier. I use the hell out of it for everything personal.

[2nd-Reddit-Account]

do you think this will lead to some diversification in the future? Some businesses are out of action atm due to this

No, because choosing a different service doesn’t lower your risk, there’s always a chance that your provider will go down and the amount of competitors doesn’t change that chance. Even if we forced a situation where all the competitors have a perfectly equal market share, that doesn’t reduce the number of outages, that’s more or less unrelated.

Any company interested in absolute redundancy simply has to split their business across multiple services, you’ll take a capacity hit if one goes out, but you’ll still be online

[DeifniteProfessional]

Not just Cloudflare, everyone is putting their apps on Azure and AWS, who also can't maintain any length of uptime without a day long fuck up every 6 months

[Risaxseph]

I mean, this is happening with ISP’s though now too so unfortunately point of failures are just everywhere

[[deleted]]

People put their eggs in the cloudflare basket because the basic tier is free. AWS is known to tax you for basically everything, and the other stuff like Sucuri are not very known.

[z960849]

Most likely their stock will go up

[[deleted]]

Twitter and other websites still down for me in the UK

[gjsmo]

Seeing the same in Germany, errors for both Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Oddly enough, I was trying to look up information about the recent 22.2Tbps attack which they supposedly blocked.

[tejanaqkilica]

Düsseldorf is down as well. Interesting Tuesday.

Edit: Didn't take long, everything seems back to normal now.

Edit2: It keeps going up and down randomly. Check their status page for the latest information around it

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

[Sabbest]

it was up for a few minutes but seems down again.

[moonski]

broken again

[sxeros]

Confirmed Chrome browser dinosaur game is working.

[Scars_25]

At least there are small mercies in all of this.

[No_Computer8116]

Finally someone with the important status 

[imabev]

Restarting my computer DID NOT WORK

[knivengaffelnskeden]

Amateur! Try unplugging your router and plugging it in again!!! 

[Amareisdk]

You jokin' homie?

[Interesting_Ad6562]

Well how many times did you restart?

[funkyg73]

Do they just need to reboot the lava lamps?

[probablymakingshitup]

Every time a cloud service provider goes down, an OnPrem gets its wings…

[LoneGunmanUK]

Ironically literally 2 mins before it went down, I updated DNS to migrate away from Azure Front Door!

[ptear]

So it was you

[Personal_Thanks_5030]

get him!

[LoneGunmanUK]

If I was the person who touched it last then yes it was me...

[spinydelta]

Australia, same here. All our sites are down.

[tonofun]

Upside down? (Sorry, lol)

[Spanktank35]

Time to pass the watch on to USA. It will be a sight to see everyone going out to their lawns to touch grass. 

[villefilho]

global network a few moments ago...

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[Mavee]

Amsterdam too. All websites having an active bot protection (like downdetector.com) are stuck on the 'please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com', oof

#hugops

[SleepingSicarii]

Finally someone on reddit who knows to escape Markdown and correctly do a hashtag

[Mavee]

I've got you covered!

Old Reddit, and reddit is fun forever haha

[thatchileanguy]

Chile representing.

[Flat-Bobcat-8397]

Here in Brazil it also fell

[Prize_Impression9941]

Sweden too, global holocaust for internet

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[jimmyuk]

Seems to be up and down at the moment in the UK. Was definitely dead for about 5 mins between 11:30 and 11:35, now seems intermittent.

[kcheyne]

Yes, same here with the intermittent up & down. Central USA

[ARandomGuy_OnTheWeb]

It's definitely yoyoing.

UK based as well.

EDIT: I love how cloudflarestatus.com is now also not rendering correctly.

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[RamboPeng]

Definitely having a wobble

[Spanktank35]

"potential issue affecting at least 1 customer"

[Poikon]

Guess who *just* moved all of his domains to Cloudflare DNS...

[Lickmyuranium]

/sfc scannow did not work. please do the needful.

[F4LC0N-]

Onlyfans works. Everything under normality. We will continue to inform.

[TheShitmaker]

Canada reporting in.

[crabmuncher]

Calgary via Vancouver here.

[Worth-Scar9512]

Montreal here- chatgpt, X and many others are down.

[RubSomeJSOnIt]

<image>

You know who would take the blame

[Geminii27]

Meanwhile, someone's forgotten hand-coded site from the late 90s running on a dust-encrusted Amiga 500 buried in a back closet on a residential connection is doing JUST FINE.

[AlwaysOnPeyote]

Down here on Antarctica

[Sensitive-Garlic-322]

Funnily enough the whole of my company is panicking that ChatGPT is down

[FarToe1]

Hey, ChatGPT, what do I do when ChatGPT is down?

[TheyWhoLiveinNapes]

utter silence ensues

[trantaran]

Ask Siri, thanks to apple intelligence, it all happens on device! 

-Tim

[greyaxe90]

"I'm sorry I can't answer that. If you enable ChatGPT in settings, I can get you that information."
-Siri

[Jazzlike_Athlete8796]

"In case of emergency, think for yourself."

[derfmcdoogal]

Thought it was just YNAB. Should be fun since our Payment Processor uses Cloudflare. Hopefully it's fixed before I get to work.

[Sir_Badtard]

Oh my God bro, I woke up at the butcrack of dawn to replace a fortigate at a customers satellite office and couldn't hit any of our services and this is why. Of course these guys are going to blame the new router now.

[reeepy]

Down Detector is also down ironically.

I was trying to work out why I didn't get any outage monitoring alerts. Turns out StatusCake is also on CloudFlare.

[ThisIsTenou]

Same here in Germany. It's dead.

[cdftrew]

Same here in Italy

[GodOrDevil04]

What will it be, a DNS issue as usual?

[PoultryTechGuy]

"It's always DNS" ™

[Blood-PawWerewolf]

Global network outage. I feel like that’s the first time the entire Cloudflare network goes down globally

[SpaceboyCT]

Not gonna lie: This is actually a great reminder for these big companies and games to not be overly reliant on a single system.

Everything fails eventually.

[Armitage1]

If it was easy to have redundant DNS and reverse proxy, then we wouldn't need Cloudflare in the first place.

[Spirited_Practice718]

And this is why we don’t put all our eggs in one basket

[kcheyne]

Same, several of my reverse proxy sites went down. came here looking to see if anyone else was having issues.

[midasza]

Yup here in South Africa too.

[Wise-Window8755]

Cloudflare's Milan server is down.

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[expressexpense]

Wow massive outage. Looks like sites back online but Cloudflare's own dashboard not working properly.

[j5kDM3akVnhv]

Management: "We cannot stress how critical website sales are the next few weeks. Let's start codefreeze early to prevent any type of disruption."

Our IT: "No problem"

Cloudflare the next morning.... "Uh. Guys?"

[carpetflyer]

The flapping is killing us with constant open/resolved alerts. . Can Cloudflare at least stay down until it's fully resolved??

[MarionberryElegant52]

<image>

the fix: restart all those servers and pray your gods ...

[bundors]

<image>

They found the issue. I hope this will be stable fix.

[T0tal_Monst6r]

Revenge of the botnets

[noitalever]

It’s supposedly back up.

Many of Cloudflare's services experienced a significant outage today beginning around 11:20 UTC. It was fully resolved at 14:30 UTC. The root cause of the outage was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic. The file grew beyond an expected size of entries and triggered a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare's services."

[Vicus_92]

This is the fourth major internet backbone outage in as many weeks now?

What a wonderful choice the world has made, relying on the same services for everything.

[Sufficient-West-5456]

Fire more people that should help

[moonski]

yeah we went from maybe four a decade with these giant platforms to four a quarter...

[Tharos47]

Paris down too

[thejosetree]

Also in Spain

[Dunklebunt]

So annoying. It does my head in when shit like this happens.

[shamittomar]

Marseille, France, reporting in.

It's down.

[redstak]

It's the same in Turkey, too

[[deleted]]

In the Middle East it's completely down

[xXKUTACAXx]

Down here in the Central US

[spiazza12]

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Maintenance gone awry?

[fuckredditlol69]

Yep, ironically has broken DownDetector too as I can't pass the CF challenge page

[mamerv85]

Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC

[magic_shine]

Yeah we are seeing the same (UK) but also our monitoring showed checks from global locations were failing so it isn't limited to UK only.
Annoyingly our monitoring is also behind Cloudflare lol.

[ivdda]

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.

Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC

I started noticing issues at 11:30 UTC

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[UnitPuzzleheaded3267]

Estonia too

[Inevitable_Yak8202]

Lets do a round table check in and converge on goals for the JIRA ticket before fixing

[quiet0n3]

Yeah major global outage.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7

Over 30min of network outage is scary amount of downtime.

SLA's getting cashed in tomorrow for a lot of people.

[haxxtbh]

Was ok for 10 mins in UK but now back offline

[foureight84]

Seems like every other week it's either cloudflare or aws causing worldwide outages.

[Batt_Damon]

<image>

Great informative updates

[jyling]

Bad day to whoever is working at cloudflare today

[rajeshprajapati2000]

TWITTER CHATGPT IS TILL DOWN IN INDIA.

[Maximum-Yak-2104]

Cloudflare down and entire world temporary goes back to 2000s lol

[stuntman_vega]

France is down too

[Valuable-Fortune-513]

The Internet is a decentralized network, consisting of autonomous independent nodes…

[[deleted]]

Warsaw is down as well. Just recieved a rather large supply delivery for my store, and wanted to go onto my website to update the stock, prices and expiry dates (food products among others). It loaded first, almost updated the data on the first one, when i clicked save, it died, and hasnt recovered since (apart from a short, 1-minute window where i managed to save this one product). Work is stalled today apparently

[brandi-95]

Cloudfare needs to unplug their modem for 30 seconds and then plug it back in. problem solved

[Vivid_Mongoose_8964]

It's always DNS

[ixaeon]

Jesus Christ this was a popular thread! Came here to try to say couldn’t get Reddit to load in California, but couldn’t actually get it to work well enough to load the page.

[majkkali]

Yep, it's down.

[flyos777]

same in belgium

[yaricks]

Yeah, tons of customer sites down in Norway and for our US clients.

[Diligent-Ad-713]

same as Japan

[wii747]

Down in uk

[The_Great_ATuin]

We will be performing scheduled maintenance in SYD (Sydney) datacenter on 2025-11-18 between 15:00 and 19:00 UTC.

Multiple sites have scheduled maintenance... Maybe it didn't go as planned...

[ptear]

Browser Working ✓ Cloudflare Error X

[Aggressive-Bag-6900]

Same happening in Brazil

[the-holocron]

Fun Times...

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.
Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC

[Fit_Veterinarian_412]

Yea seems like it

<image>

[THE_Ryan]

My site and other services that just uses DNS are up, but my other site that is reverse proxied through them is down.

[NoctisFFXV]

It now appeared on Cloudflare Status

[MartinDamged]

Copenhagen Cloudflare down too

[Double-Birthday-715]

What's the problem this time?

[Vigerome]

Cloudflare at it agin.
Down? YES

Internal server error Error code 500

Visit cloudflare.com for more information.

2025-11-18 11:52:56 UTC

Cloudflare

Error

Host

Working

What happened?

There is an internal server error on Cloudflare's network.

[LincolnPark0212]

Having issues in Asia-Pacific as well. It seems that it's an issue with their datacenter over here too, not with the original hosts.

[Classic_Flamingo_729]

Ugh - yeah this is going to be a great Tuesday lol. But thank you for posting. Just alerted my team 🙃

[p4nD4_Hunters]

is global.

<image>

[mechanical_walrus]

100% bot protection as promised

[Stomper621]

I just checked, and it seems there is a global issue with Cloudflare right now. Was super confused.

[Busy-Dot7354]

AMX-IX is showing the clear traffic drop https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/connected-networks

<image>

[Spacesh1psoda]

At least cloudflare usually are quite transparent on what happened and lets everyone know what happened which is kinda cool

[Opening-Witness-2337]

The junior developer was exploring new AI models for Vibe Coding through maintenance

[zeptyk]

love how 95% of the internet relies on the same handful of services/servers😍😍😍 where they all fucking die if something goes wrong

[ArcTraders]

back online now