Posted on 11/18/2025 5:47:11 AM PST by Red Badger
In the last few minutes Cloudflare has confirmed it is aware of a major issue affecting its Global Network, which is causing widespread internet outages ranging from platforms like X (formerly Twitter) to ChatGPT, and, ironically, Downdetector. A wave of other websites and services are also experiencing outages.
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM Windscribe Cloudflare outage
(Image credit: Windscribe) Is the Windscribe VPN another victim of the Cloudflare outage? We don't know because the status page is also down. Stewart is not having a good day, he uses it to check our deals.
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM Downdetector's graph of Cloudflare outages
(Image credit: Downdetector) Lets take another look at Downdectors graph of reported Cloudflare issues.
After a large spike at 11:45AM GMT (4,558 reports) things have calmed a little, with 1,927 reports at 12:45PM. As we know, the sys admins at Cloudflare are working on the issue, so it is now just a matter of time, and a constant of supply of coffee until the teams have things up and running again.
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM According to its status page, ClaudAI is suffering a major outage due to Cloudflare's own outage.
The old adage of "Don't put your eggs all in one basket" is once again being proven by another Internet outage.
Claude AI status page
(Image credit: Cluade) November 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM WARP is back online! Could this indicate that things will soon be working again?
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. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:13 UTC
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM Well, this means that Steward and I can't work on any new graphics this afternoon! Canva, the online design suite is also impacted by Cloudflare.
Canva Cloudflare issue
(Image credit: Canva) November 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM According to Cloudflare's Status page.
Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:09 UTC
Hold on to your hats! Things are going to get a little bumpy while the fix proliferates across the Internet.
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM According to the latest Cloudflare 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."
But what is WARP? Faster than light travel for starships?
Sadly not, Cloudflare's WARP is seemingly a tool to secure internet connections by encrypting all traffic from a user's device. It is mainly used as a privacy tool for consumers and corporate customers. Unlike a VPN, warp does not hide your IP address, it merely encrypts your traffic.
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM Just a couple of months ago, Cloudflare blocked a record-setting 11.5Tbps DDoS attack two months after the previous record-setting DDoS attack
It seems that this could be another attempt to launch a DDOS on Cloudflare. If so, who is leading this and why?
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I’ve noticed that a few websites didn’t work. I wondered what was going on.
Down Detector is down and cannot report on its own outage.
LOL
I am getting a Miami Cloudflare error on some sites like The Conservative Treehouse. Someone cleaned it, like with a cloth.
This is widespread. X is still down.
Pookey’s Toons are out!!!
X is working for me right now.
Lets take this a bit further into the future, where the internet of things is ensconced in every detail of life (think China and its social credit system).
Are We Logged ‘IN?’
Something major has happened and they are blinding us on purpose.
Try this one.
I just checked again. Still down for me. The internet can be capricious at times.
Number 6: Where am I?
Number Two: In the village.
Number 6: What do you want?
Number Two: Information.
Number 6: Whose side are you on?
Number Two: That would be telling. We want information... information... information!
Number 6: You won't get it!
Number Two: By hook or by crook, we will.
Number 6: Who are you?
Number Two: The new Number Two.
Number 6: Who is Number One?
Number Two: You are Number Six.
Number 6: I am not a number; I AM A FREE MAN!
Number Two: [laughter]
I’m eating cheese with a moose in the shower.
I just checked down detector and it seems to be working.
All the lefty reporting “Elon Musk”s X is down”.
Yahoo is being wonky. Frustrating.
Thee Prisoner reference...
Nice
It appears to be a ‘Domino Effect’..........
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