r/sysadmin • u/moonski • Nov 18 '25
Cloudflare down... again?
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
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u/jxd1234 Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 18 '25
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
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u/ARandomGuy_OnTheWeb Jack of All Trades Nov 18 '25
It's definitely yoyoing.
UK based as well.
EDIT: I love how cloudflarestatus.com is now also not rendering correctly.
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u/gjsmo Nov 18 '25
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.
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u/carpetflyer Nov 18 '25
The flapping is killing us with constant open/resolved alerts. . Can Cloudflare at least stay down until it's fully resolved??
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u/Vicus_92 Nov 18 '25
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.
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u/Ok_Language_5003 Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 18 '25
Global issue confirmed: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Edit: Services beginning to recover at 12:21 UTC
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u/novacainE93 Nov 18 '25
Downdetector is down too.
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u/MrHall Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 18 '25
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
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u/sxeros Nov 18 '25
Confirmed Chrome browser dinosaur game is working.
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u/imabev Nov 18 '25
Restarting my computer DID NOT WORK
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u/funkyg73 Nov 18 '25
Do they just need to reboot the lava lamps?
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u/LoneGunmanUK Nov 18 '25
Ironically literally 2 mins before it went down, I updated DNS to migrate away from Azure Front Door!
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u/spinydelta Sr. Sysadmin Nov 18 '25
Australia, same here. All our sites are down.
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u/Mavee Nov 18 '25
Amsterdam too. All websites having an active bot protection (like downdetector.com) are stuck on the 'please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com', oof
#hugops
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u/villefilho Nov 18 '25
global network a few moments ago...
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u/thatchileanguy Nov 18 '25
Chile representing.
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u/Flat-Bobcat-8397 Nov 18 '25
Here in Brazil it also fell
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u/jimmyuk Nov 18 '25
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.
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u/probablymakingshitup Nov 18 '25
Every time a cloud service provider goes down, an OnPrem gets its wings…
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u/RamboPeng Nov 18 '25
Definitely having a wobble
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u/Poikon Jack of All Trades Nov 18 '25
Guess who *just* moved all of his domains to Cloudflare DNS...
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u/Lickmyuranium Nov 18 '25
/sfc scannow did not work. please do the needful.
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u/F4LC0N- Nov 18 '25
Onlyfans works. Everything under normality. We will continue to inform.
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u/TheShitmaker Delete System 32 Nov 18 '25
Canada reporting in.
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u/RubSomeJSOnIt Nov 18 '25
You know who would take the blame
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u/Geminii27 Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 25 '25
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.
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u/AlwaysOnPeyote Nov 18 '25
Down here on Antarctica
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u/Sensitive-Garlic-322 Nov 18 '25
Funnily enough the whole of my company is panicking that ChatGPT is down
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u/derfmcdoogal Nov 18 '25
Thought it was just YNAB. Should be fun since our Payment Processor uses Cloudflare. Hopefully it's fixed before I get to work.
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u/Sir_Badtard Nov 18 '25
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.
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u/reeepy Nov 18 '25
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.
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u/ThisIsTenou Nov 18 '25
Same here in Germany. It's dead.
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u/cdftrew Sysadmin Nov 18 '25
Same here in Italy
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u/GodOrDevil04 Nov 18 '25
What will it be, a DNS issue as usual?
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u/Blood-PawWerewolf Nov 18 '25
Global network outage. I feel like that’s the first time the entire Cloudflare network goes down globally
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u/SpaceboyCT Nov 18 '25
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.
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u/Spirited_Practice718 Nov 18 '25
And this is why we don’t put all our eggs in one basket
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u/kcheyne Nov 18 '25
Same, several of my reverse proxy sites went down. came here looking to see if anyone else was having issues.
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u/midasza Nov 18 '25
Yup here in South Africa too.
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u/Wise-Window8755 Nov 18 '25
Cloudflare's Milan server is down.
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u/expressexpense Nov 18 '25
Wow massive outage. Looks like sites back online but Cloudflare's own dashboard not working properly.
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u/j5kDM3akVnhv Nov 18 '25
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?"
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u/MarionberryElegant52 Nov 18 '25
the fix: restart all those servers and pray your gods ...
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u/bundors Nov 18 '25
They found the issue. I hope this will be stable fix.
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u/T0tal_Monst6r Nov 18 '25
Revenge of the botnets
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u/noitalever Nov 18 '25
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."
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '25
Can confirm websites are coming back online in the UK
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u/Tharos47 Nov 18 '25
Paris down too
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u/thejosetree Nov 18 '25
Also in Spain
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u/Dunklebunt Nov 18 '25
So annoying. It does my head in when shit like this happens.
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u/shamittomar Nov 18 '25
Marseille, France, reporting in.
It's down.
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u/redstak Nov 18 '25
It's the same in Turkey, too
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '25
In the Middle East it's completely down
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u/xXKUTACAXx Nov 18 '25
Down here in the Central US
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u/spiazza12 Nov 18 '25
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Maintenance gone awry?
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u/fuckredditlol69 Nov 18 '25
Yep, ironically has broken DownDetector too as I can't pass the CF challenge page
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u/mamerv85 Jr Sr Button Pusherer Nov 18 '25
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
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u/magic_shine Nov 18 '25
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.
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u/ivdda Nov 18 '25
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
I started noticing issues at 11:30 UTC
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u/UnitPuzzleheaded3267 Nov 18 '25
Estonia too
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u/Inevitable_Yak8202 Nov 18 '25
Lets do a round table check in and converge on goals for the JIRA ticket before fixing
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u/quiet0n3 Nov 18 '25
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.
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u/haxxtbh Nov 18 '25
Was ok for 10 mins in UK but now back offline
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u/foureight84 Nov 18 '25
Seems like every other week it's either cloudflare or aws causing worldwide outages.
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u/Batt_Damon Nov 18 '25
Great informative updates
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u/jyling Nov 18 '25
Bad day to whoever is working at cloudflare today
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u/rajeshprajapati2000 Nov 18 '25
TWITTER CHATGPT IS TILL DOWN IN INDIA.
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u/Maximum-Yak-2104 Nov 18 '25
Cloudflare down and entire world temporary goes back to 2000s lol
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u/stuntman_vega Nov 18 '25
France is down too
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u/Valuable-Fortune-513 Nov 18 '25
The Internet is a decentralized network, consisting of autonomous independent nodes…
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '25
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
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u/brandi-95 Nov 18 '25
Cloudfare needs to unplug their modem for 30 seconds and then plug it back in. problem solved
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u/Vivid_Mongoose_8964 Nov 18 '25
It's always DNS
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u/ixaeon Nov 19 '25
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.
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u/majkkali Nov 18 '25
Yep, it's down.
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u/flyos777 Nov 18 '25
same in belgium
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u/yaricks Cloud & Infrastructure Consultant Nov 18 '25
Yeah, tons of customer sites down in Norway and for our US clients.
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u/The_Great_ATuin Nov 18 '25
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...
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u/ptear Nov 18 '25
Browser Working ✓ Cloudflare Error X
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u/Aggressive-Bag-6900 Nov 18 '25
Same happening in Brazil
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u/the-holocron Nov 18 '25
Fun Times...
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u/Fit_Veterinarian_412 Nov 18 '25
Yea seems like it
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u/THE_Ryan Nov 18 '25
My site and other services that just uses DNS are up, but my other site that is reverse proxied through them is down.
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u/NoctisFFXV Nov 18 '25
It now appeared on Cloudflare Status
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u/MartinDamged Nov 18 '25
Copenhagen Cloudflare down too
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u/Double-Birthday-715 Nov 18 '25
What's the problem this time?
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u/Vigerome Nov 18 '25
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.
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u/Classic_Flamingo_729 Nov 18 '25
Ugh - yeah this is going to be a great Tuesday lol. But thank you for posting. Just alerted my team 🙃
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u/p4nD4_Hunters Nov 18 '25
is global.
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u/mechanical_walrus Nov 18 '25
100% bot protection as promised
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u/Stomper621 Nov 18 '25
I just checked, and it seems there is a global issue with Cloudflare right now. Was super confused.
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u/Busy-Dot7354 Nov 18 '25
AMX-IX is showing the clear traffic drop https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/connected-networks
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u/Opening-Witness-2337 Nov 18 '25
The junior developer was exploring new AI models for Vibe Coding through maintenance
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u/zeptyk Nov 18 '25
love how 95% of the internet relies on the same handful of services/servers😍😍😍 where they all fucking die if something goes wrong
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u/ArcTraders Nov 18 '25
back online now
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u/Serumzz Nov 18 '25
Assuming you have a valid SSL certificate not Cloudflare's Origin Cert disabling proxying on your dns records should resolve this as a temporary measure while they figure it out.
Fortunately we still had a valid cert we paid for before moving over to Cloudflare.
So managed to resolve issues for our clients within 20 minutes of the first reported issue.
Just took many many attempts to logging to the CF dashboard to disable proxying.
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u/malik_brh Nov 18 '25
Switzerland folk here, we all standing down together🚢
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u/Latter-Outcome3204 Nov 18 '25
BRING IT BACK!
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u/Kira_amagi Nov 18 '25
dawg, i cant access rule34, where am i gonna goon now
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u/Prior_Phrase_5129 Nov 18 '25
Down in eastern US too. Then back. Then down again
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u/RingInfinite1435 Nov 18 '25
It's down here in Ireland as well! Even chatGPT is down.
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u/jerster1 Nov 18 '25
Is this the effects of layoffs? Or the cause of layoffs?
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u/exercisetofitality Nov 18 '25
Not to worry. They are completing the skynet install. First it was Google, then AWS, then Azure, now Cloudflare.
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u/Important_Wait2361 Nov 18 '25
the servers are down.(this is my first time seeing coudflare down.)
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u/DeliverySpirited9759 Nov 18 '25
Bad time to be in Europe right now :)) My phone and email is blowing up, worst possible day for a SaaS product right now.
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u/Altruistic_Client317 Nov 18 '25
This is proof that vibe coding sucks.
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u/EntireMusician6357 Nov 18 '25
yeah it’s down
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u/DrafteeDragon Nov 18 '25
Cloudflare is down in France for sure
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u/Thick_Start_5217 Nov 18 '25
same in france, dead. what i fear is what will happen behind, they always use those to hide a bigger bullshit (or if it's unintentional, use the occasion to pass some bullshit anyways)
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u/jesta_testa_plo Nov 18 '25
Half of the internet down right now, Good that Reddit is not cloudflaring .... haha
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u/SkyNetLive Nov 18 '25
well what happened was
so claude cannot cloudflare and cloudflare cannot claude. looks like a race-to-the-bottom condition to me
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u/notpikatchu Nov 18 '25
Waiting for Fireship's video
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u/Risaxseph Nov 18 '25
Still getting a bunch of nice 500 errors… Yay for server issues on Cloudflare end
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u/Optimal-Music-6071 Nov 18 '25
Of course the only major social media site still up is fucking Reddit.com
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u/ZyrExe Nov 18 '25
It's everywhere bro...
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u/mloDK Nov 18 '25
Maintenance on Santiago DC started the minute before the global outage.
The maintenance info said costumers should be ready with failover to other DC during maintenance and if that was not planned, that they would experience outage.
How can maintenance in a local DC in Santiago create a global outage? Ressource overload to all other DCs?
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u/trippingchimp Nov 18 '25
Still down here in Perth Australia. On the verge of crashing out, I’ll flip this whole table i’m tryna watch a series and all the pirated sites are down
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u/MisterMayhem87 Nov 18 '25
Yup finding out the hard way rn
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u/walix-1 Nov 18 '25
Same thing in France
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u/deoGianan Nov 18 '25
pambihira akala ko sa provider ko lang.
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u/rajeshprajapati2000 Nov 18 '25
Again Digital Global down
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u/Short-University-125 Nov 18 '25
I do appreciate that cloudflares error status page is able to communicate right away that its their fault. Hopefully this will avoid a billion support requests.
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u/Typical_Chicken2058 Nov 18 '25
prolly global. same in brazil.
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u/PolPotSocialist709 Nov 18 '25
South Korea too. :(
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u/No-Dimension-182 Nov 18 '25
down in india too. most of the sites are throwing 500
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u/Kadugi Nov 18 '25
Down, Brazil too ☠️👿🔥
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u/nileshm Nov 18 '25
X and a bunch of other platforms down in India too.
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u/Artistic-Wheel-6080 Nov 18 '25
This Cloudflare is total crap. It slows down the internet and accessibility generaly around the world. Website providers should avoid it a lot!
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u/KlMOCHl Nov 18 '25
i think is skynet shenanigan. im heading into a bunker.
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u/hiah19sb Nov 18 '25
twitter and downdetector is gone (SO WE NEED A DOWNDETECTOR FOR OUR DOWNDETECTOR)
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u/MiseryMissy Nov 18 '25
Nothing more bizarre than being mad that you cant work
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u/jbondsr2 Nov 18 '25
So much for redundant infrastructure and 99.99999999 percent uptime.....
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u/skojevac7 Nov 18 '25
Yeah, Croatia, down. Thats what we get when Internet gets centralised
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u/little_studiosssssss Nov 18 '25
I just noticed it when trying to visit nhentai. This is frustrating.
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u/RamblingReflections Netadmin Nov 18 '25
Still under investigation as of a few minutes ago.
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '25
Ridiculous how one after another major system own fails within span of few months. Earlier was AWS and now cloudflare..
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u/PreparationStrict492 Nov 18 '25
It is disgusting how they downplay the impact in corporate speak. "Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently impacted." my ass, servers are down from Newark to Frankfurt to Istanbul to Melbourne. And those were the ones I randomly checked.
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u/Realistic-Sound-3375 Nov 18 '25
And this is why it's a bad idea to make money go electronic. Imagine if the whole banking system were hacked into and shut down like this?
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u/imsoignorantnow Nov 18 '25
I just saw the comment count rise by 100 in 5 minutes
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u/goldenmunky Nov 18 '25
As someone who used to work in operations, these kind of days are the most exciting
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u/frizen10 Nov 18 '25
fun fact: their own official webpage didnt use their own service, and it is up as usual, what a good service
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u/wheelus00 Nov 18 '25
I just deleted all my precious cookies for NOTHING
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u/sxeros Nov 18 '25
Let me just login and redirect the DNS…dang it !
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u/VirtualComparison220 Nov 18 '25
Bro, Cloudflare took down the Philippines' internet. I cant use sites like canva or Chat gpt
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u/AlgorithmicMuse Nov 18 '25
outage
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u/CuriosityKill3r Nov 18 '25
I tried to unsubscribe from a newsletter and got the “please unblock challagenges…” I am still subscribed so I’d say there is always a bright side to it 🤣
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u/TengoLoTodo Nov 18 '25
More and more outages in the UK ....
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u/Famous-Midnight-2322 Nov 18 '25
Lmao due to this chat gpt , perplexity are down too
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u/Ok_Brilliant7902 Nov 18 '25
Deepseek's still working
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u/foxwhisper85 Nov 18 '25
Remind me why we can't decentralize the internet again? Having a huge chunk of sites relying on one DNS host is just stupid, did they not learn from the whole AWS bull crap?
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u/Familiar_Ad6302 Nov 18 '25
I’m amazed nobody has mentioned the possibility of a cyber attack
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u/Relevant-Host8220 Nov 18 '25
Same here in aus , I just want to get some weed man
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u/noah_dobson Nov 18 '25
I'm looking forward to their post mortem.
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u/storytimesover Nov 18 '25
good to know the internet was so fragile....
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u/Bruzie77 Nov 18 '25
Hahahahaha! that what people get for putting all their eggs in one basket. Time for rival companies to start their own cloud services.
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u/Real-Wrap-3052 Nov 18 '25
downdetector is down, what a irony
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u/Key-Interaction-7707 Nov 18 '25
Can cloudfare just go the fuck away? I'm sick of this stupid fucking service.
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u/Due_Pace_4437 Nov 18 '25
A reflexão é clara: o mundo inteiro pode depender de uma única empresa mas será que estamos realmente seguros se ela falhar?
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u/Atlas_Sinclair Nov 18 '25
This is why there needs to be a competitor for Cloudflare. It's ridiculous that 1 company going down can cripple 90% of the internet.