As of today, Cloudflare — a key internet infrastructure provider that handles security, performance, and traffic for millions of websites — is dealing with a widespread outage affecting its global network. This has caused disruptions across numerous popular sites and services, including:
X (formerly Twitter)
ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Spotify
League of Legends
Amazon (parts)
Canva, Grindr, Letterboxd, and many others
Even outage trackers like Downdetector were impacted at times Users have reported "500 Internal Server Errors" or messages saying there's an issue on Cloudflare's network. The problem started around 11:20–11:48 UTC (early morning ET), with a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare's services triggering errors. Latest updates from Cloudflare's status page:
The issue has been identified, and a fix is being implemented. Some services like Cloudflare Access and WARP have recovered, with error rates back to normal.
They're still working on full restoration for other application services, and some elevated errors may persist during recovery.
This comes about a month after a similar large-scale AWS outage, highlighting how reliant the internet is on a handful of backbone providers.
Recent Positive News Just yesterday (November 17, 2025), Cloudflare announced it's acquiring Replicate, an AI model deployment platform, to strengthen its "AI cloud" offerings for developers. This is aimed at making AI inference faster and more seamless on Cloudflare's massive edge network.
Other recent highlights include strong Q3 2025 financial results (reported late October) and ongoing product launches in areas like Zero Trust security and AI tools.
The outage is the dominant story right now, but Cloudflare has a track record of quick recoveries from past incidents. If you're running into errors on sites today, it's likely tied to this — hang tight while they sort it out!
Even Downdetector was down for a while. Wonder if it has anything to do with the Epstein presser.
I just commented the same! 😄
u/#wildwest
the Simpsons episode was clearly talking about a network broadcast storm that brought down cloudfare.
The Conservative Treehouse was down too.
My first thought was that the Epstein Files finally went hot. 😆
I was just cloudfared here and at qalerts.app.
I haven't been able to access GAW all day....
I was hoping it was the beginning of the end. Soon.Stay tuned.
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Running a test for when the files get released. They want to make sure they can still take down the internet. Buy them a few hours to get out of town and into their bunkers.
u/#correct
They engineered a single point of failure for the internet, practically undoing the original engineering of the internet. The whole point was packets were meant to be able to take multiple routes in case of outages. Cloudflare killed that idea...
Just saw your comment - after I commented nearly the same thing. Always good to see other people noticing the same things - it's a good sign.
"Isn't it great how the Internet was designed with redundancy in mind, and idiots made sure to break it by creating bottlenecks like Cloudflare? It's almost as if this was done on purpose to stop the flow of vital information or something.
Nah - that wouldn't ever happen - would it? SMH"
Exactly. I mean, I get it with the ddos'ing and everything, but at this point Cloudflare is a SPOF. There is no reason they can't engineer a solution that would prevent what happened but I suspect you are right. One choke point to maintain control...
"...highlighting how reliant the internet is on a handful of backbone providers."
Found the problem.
Isn't it great how the Internet was designed with redundancy in mind, and idiots made sure to break it by creating bottlenecks like Cloudflare? It's almost as if this was done on purpose to stop the flow of vital information or something.
Nah - that wouldn't ever happen - would it? SMH
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Globalization is our strength 🧐
Weird how news aggregate sites suffered on the day of the Epstein vote
Summers…Hobbs…Children…🤔
Yes. Very slow internet and lots of 402 error pages. The credit union took 20 mins to boot up this morning and i had to run my debit 2x to get it read.
Yep all day
It could be the solar flares and CME's, or it could be something else, of course, but there were reports that the flares are huge and strong..
I think I discovered the meaning of darnkess. First words out of my mouth when i couldn't access several of my favorite sites was "darn" it.
Simpsons bun off by half a day? Mmmmm buns.
I could not access this site earlier today. Some kind of error message.
Me too! Couldn't get on gaw...
CLOUDFLARE......🤣🤣🍿🍿⚔️⚔️
Me also. Firefox says it is Cloudfare
numerous cloudflare issues here today........
Just a reminder how
VULNERABLE THE SHEEPS ARE
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Home Depot website was not affected
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Cloudfaeries shit the bed ...once again!
Maybe they're no longer up to the task or realistically able to shoulder this responsibility?
Monopoly?
Alternatives?
Where do they get their revenue (besides selling our information)???
I couldn't get into a Wordle word finder this morning; there's my real-life contribution. LOL
Love us some wordle. We have a messenger group where are family shares the puzzles
Cloudfared here, Liberty Daily, Citizen Press, and Gateway Pundit.
Cloudflare System Status - https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
H/T u/dogsoldier2
Crypto heist??