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 use Brave as well, and yesterday I went to a site the did the ‘verify’ thing over and over again. After about five times I quit trying...............
Our technology, and lack of it, will be the death of us. It’s a trap of our own making.
“Something major has happened and they are blinding us on purpose.”
I think this all the time. I usually feel a little sheepish shortly after. But we have spicy info popping up daily now, and Epstein info is beginning to surface so if you’re gonna try censoring the whole internet this could be a good time. Even if these are trial runs for info they expect to be released soon it would be unsurprising.
I thought it was because of Windows 10 browser no longer supported.
You too?
I believe Reddit was down during one of the other previous cloud service provider outages.
Beeber stuned slowly.
I’ve tried it a couple times of varying success. It’ll either be slow, but at least load some posts, or it just won’t work at all. Supposedly, they’ve applied some sort of fix, but it takes a while for it to apply to all the servers and to sync up with their clients to begin functioning normally
I heard others say that, but I really don’t think that’s the case. When Amazon AWS went down like a month or two ago for a while, it was one of their staffers/engineers who I believe, made a mistake in some configuration and broke it. I’ve never seen any evidence of something that happened during these outages we heard about afterwards. Also, it’s only been one of the major providers like AWS or cloud flare. It may take out X, as an example for a while, however, other new sites remain online.
November 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Our colleagues at TechRadar acquired a statement directly from CloudFlare itself, as the service continues to investigate the ongoing downtime. The statement reads:
“We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors. We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic. We will post updates to cloudflarestatus.com and more in-depth analysis when it is ready to blog.cloudflare.com.”
“When Amazon AWS went down like a month or two ago for a while, it was one of their staffers/engineers who I believe, made a mistake in some configuration and broke it. I’ve never seen any evidence of something that happened during these outages we heard about afterwards.”
See here is the problem. You believe what they tell you. You can NEVER believe what they tell you. NEVER.
Update - We’ve deployed a change which has restored dashboard services. We are still working to remediate broad application services impact
Nov 18, 2025 - 14:34 UTC
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Still good here. As you say, the fix is slowly percolating through the entire internet landscape.
That just means MS will not give any more updates or service info. It will still work............until it doesn’t..........
" I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own. "
We are number six.....
Be seeing you.
Trust but verify. And then verify some more.
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Downdetector Cloudflare outage graph
(Image credit: Downdetector)
Time to check Downdetector’s outage graph!
At 14:19 GMT, there were a reported 11,145 Cloudflare issues logged to the site.
Over at Cloudflare, the latest update states that
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.
Nov 18, 2025 - 14:42 UTC
Could the end of this outage be nigh? Stay tuned!
I agree...
I’ve changed my idea of smartphone to resident Evil!
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In the World but Not of it.
It could All End tomorrow.
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