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Posted on 11/18/2025 6:17:17 AM PST by Red Badger
A major outage affecting Cloudflare’s Global Network has led to widespread internet disruptions, impacting popular platforms like Elon Musk’s X, ChatGPT,and even Downdetector, the first place people look to understand internet outages.
Cloudflare, the world’s leading web infrastructure and security company, confirmed that it was experiencing a significant issue with its Global Network in the early hours of Tuesday morning, causing widespread outages across the internet. The problem has affected various services, including social media platform X, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and the outage monitoring site Downdetector among many other sites and apps experiencing problems. Even some news sites, including Axios, appear to be completely unreachable as of this writing due to the Cloudflare outage — visitors are asked to “unblock” a Cloudflare address to proceed.
According to Cloudflare’s System Status page, the company is currently investigating the issue, which is causing HTTP 500 errors that impact the Cloudflare dashboard and API. These server-level errors indicate that the problem lies within Cloudflare’s infrastructure, rather than with individual websites or servers. The Company claims in one of its most recent updates that, “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”
As a result of the outage, X has been experiencing intermittent issues, with availability being patchy for the past hour. Downdetector, which ironically relies on Cloudflare’s services, has also been affected by the outage. The site saw a peak of 11,201 reports of issues at 6:37 a.m. ET, with the number of reports gradually decreasing to 6,570 at the last data point. This decrease could suggest that the fix is slowly propagating across the internet, or that fewer people are reporting the issue as it becomes more widely known.
Cloudflare had been undergoing scheduled maintenance at 5:00 a.m. ET, according to the company’s website.
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My CU is offline, too. They do it because they paid some consultant a huge pile of cash to tell them to do it.
I asked ChatGPT:
Are you down because of Cloudflare?
Answer:
No—I’m not down, and Cloudflare isn’t affecting me from what I can see.
If you’re experiencing delays, slow responses, or weird behavior, it’s more likely due to:
* temporary congestion on OpenAI’s servers
* browser issues
* your local network connection
* Cloudflare issues *on your end*, if your ISP or browser is routing through them
But on my side, I’m fully up and running.
Chat GPT is working.
Are you seeing a message from cloudflare when you go to the VA website?
I’m in like Flynn!
Depends on where the VA server is....................
Nobody’s perfect....................
It seems to be working now!
Thanks for your input.
Thankfully, no issue with login to the VA website with ID.me.
Specifically, the VA loan website (WebLGY) for work.
East Coast - Georgia.
It's down again. My guess is they're troubleshooting and it may be a while before sites are 'consistently' up.
“Put your system and data on the cloud! It’s the latest thing!”
The FR has been on Cloud servers for a few years now. This problem is a “Middleman” problem. CloudFlare is an access node middleman and censorship/on/off stitch tool that websites themselves implement personally on their own sites as a 3rd party “Security” service.
I’ve been into network security for 10 years now.
Never trusted Cloudflare for some reason.
Just a spidey tingling I get from them.
Came back on for me around 7 AM this morning PST.
Seems many many news sites use it.
Yes and let’s centralize everything to one humongous “cloud” network monopoly! What could possibly go wrong? So cool, so efficient!
🤦♀️
The worse part of it was I couldn’t get Pookie’s Toons! You da man, Pookie!
It’s back up now!....................
From up and down and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all
And to think that US government is using the cloud for very sensitive business.
I know, but thanks anyway. Gotta start the day with toons!
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