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 heard on the radio (remember those?) just yesterday that Chinese hackers had used AI to crash a number of major sites worldwide.
Not just “X”, but they must savage Elon..................
Did it bite your sister first ?
The Technology Trap is closing in.
Patriots.win is also down. I believe they have used cloud flair from the beginning due to numerous DDOS attack attacks from the left.
I hope the millions of young men here in the USA who are citizens of India, that now run all of this stuff can sort this out! I am sure none of them have any ill will towards us.</sarcasm>
Welcome to 1985......................
They don’t need to do that. We do it automatically..............
They've wanted to play ICANN domain registrar, verification middleman and more. Sounds like they have found an indigestible snack....
Some sites, when the Cloudflare "wait while we check" stuff comes up is enough for me to move one to some other, less "middleman" site.
In that regard, FR seems to cotton to no middleman. :)
Welcome to 1985......................
Oh, no one ever left alive in nineteen hundred and eighty-five will ever do.
X just came back up for me. We’ll see how long it lasts.
Love that song!...............
One of Macca’s best.
A Moose bit My Sister
You are Number Six!
“I heard on the radio (remember those?) just yesterday that Chinese hackers had used AI to crash a number of major sites worldwide.”
CloudFlare is a government censorship tool and on/off stitch. I do not trust our government any more than I trust China. Anyone who does is a fool.
Sadly Reddit is still working.
It comes up for me in VA.
I've been having a problem getting past my credit union's CloudFlare "verify you're a human" thingy (error # 106010). Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't for weeks now (I use Brave browser).
The wonders of technology....
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