Maybe that any actor sophisticated enough to take down Azure might also target Cloudflare?

whats your chain of thought here ? a company that has nothing to do with azure is down because azure got ddosed 2 weeks ago ?

I thought that as we&#x27;re seeing issues with LON, but their Manchester POP is also down and that didn&#x27;t have any maintenance this morning.

Maybe related to their scheduled maintenance? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;</a>

Ironically I can&#x27;t even read the link in the article because cloudflare is down.

Linked Microsoft blog article mentions that DDoS was in October.

Related to Azure DDoS?<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45955900">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45955900</a>

Even many non tech people have begun to associate Internet wide outages with “aws must be down” so I imagine many of them searching “is aws down” and for down detector, a hit is a down report, so it will report aws impacts even when the culprit is cloudflare in this case

The report there for AWS also skyrocketed, but I guess it&#x27;s probably false positives?

Ironically, DownDetector seems to be down because it protects its site with Cloudflare Turnstile... which is also down!

Ands its back. It was a very short window to look out of the window.

Internet is down, I guess I&#x27;ll just look out of the window for a bit

It&#x27;s the first time it&#x27;s been down that I&#x27;ve seen a sensible error message.But I was supposed to be commuting, so I guess I&#x27;ll do that.

I was trying to look up banana-based jokes (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upjoke.com&#x2F;banana-jokes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upjoke.com&#x2F;banana-jokes</a>) and discovered that London Cloudflare seems to be down.Then, I tried various down detecting sites and they didn&#x27;t seem to work either - presumably due to Cloudflare.

Not affected using tunnels, CDNs.it&#x27;s probably related to the recent ddos attacks they helped mitigating.

Saw cloudflare go down before my very eyes on colonist.io in Australia

When I&#x27;m debugging something, I&#x27;m not usually looking for the solution to the problem; I&#x27;m looking for sufficient evidence that I didn&#x27;t cause the problem. Once I have that, the velocity at which I work slows down

The problem is, I still get the wrong end of the stick when AWS or CF go down! Management doesn&#x27;t care, understandably. They just want the money to keep coming in. It&#x27;s hard to convince them that this is a pretty big problem. The only thing that will calm them down a bit is to tell them Twitter is also down. If that doesn&#x27;t get them, I say ChatGPT is also down. Now NOBODY will get any work done! lol.

Maybe this isn’t great, but I get a hint of that feeling when I’m on an airplane and hear a baby crying. For a number of years, if I heard a baby crying, it was probably my baby and I had to deal with it. But now my kids are past that phase, so when I hear the crying, after that initial jolt of panic I realize that it isn’t my problem, and that does give me the warm fuzzies. Even though I do feel bad for the baby and their parents.

What’s funny is as I get older this feeling of relief turns more like a feeling of dread. The nice thing about problems that you cause is that you have considerable autonomy to fix them. Cloudflare goes down you’re sitting and waiting for a 3 party to fix something.

It&#x27;s close enough to Schadenfreude but not really.

The German word “schadenfreude” means taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune; enjoyment rather than relief.

Schadenfriend?You gain relief, but you don&#x27;t exactly derive pleasure as it&#x27;s someone you know that&#x27;s getting the ass end of the deal

Is there a word for that feeling of relief when someone else fucked up after initially thinking it was you?

You missed a great opportunity to dead-pan him with something like &quot;No, Bob, not just our site, you brought down the entire Internet, look at this post!&quot;

Oh don&#x27;t you worry. We are very much talking about the global outage as if he was the root cause. Like good colleagues :)

&gt; May 12, we began a software deployment that introduced a bug that could be triggered by a specific customer configuration under specific circumstances.I&#x27;d love to know more about what those specific circumstances were!

Damn, imagine being the customer responsible for that, oof

I&#x27;m pretty sure I crashed Gmail using something weird in its filters. It was a few years ago. Every time I did something specific (I don&#x27;t remember what), it would freeze and then display a 502 error for a while.

It&#x27;s also what was the cause of the Azure Front Doors global outage two weeks ago - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aka.ms&#x2F;air&#x2F;YKYN-BWZ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aka.ms&#x2F;air&#x2F;YKYN-BWZ</a>&quot;A specific sequence of customer configuration changes, performed across two different control plane build versions, resulted in incompatible customer configuration metadata being generated. These customer configuration changes themselves were valid and non-malicious – however they produced metadata that, when deployed to edge site servers, exposed a latent bug in the data plane. This incompatibility triggered a crash during asynchronous processing within the data plane service. This defect escaped detection due to a gap in our pre-production validation, since not all features are validated across different control plane build versions.&quot;

Well, you can never be sure that he didn&#x27;t:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastly.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;summary-of-june-8-outage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastly.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;summary-of-june-8-outage</a>

Wait for the post mortem ... It is a technical possibility, race condition propagates one customer config to all nodes... :-)

Good point. We should probably assume they did, until proven otherwise.

How do we know your colleagues changes didn&#x27;t take down Cloudflare though?

Good that he worked it out so quick. I recently spent a day debugging email problems on Railway PaaS, because they silently closed an SMTP port without telling anyone.

The company where this colleague works? Cloudflare.

Is Cloudflare being down  the work of conservative hackers and the rest of the internet is just collateral damage?

Even pornhub is down becuase it uses clouflare.

You joke and I think its funny, but as a junior engineer I would be quite proud if some small change I made was able to take down the mighty Cloudflare.

Tell him it&#x27;s worse than he thinks. He obviously brought the entire Cloudflare system down.

Do you guys work at Cloudflare? Do you mind reverting that change just in case?

Chances are still good that somewhere within Cloudflare someone really did do a global configuration push that brought down the internet.When aliens study humans from this period, their book of fairy tales will include several where a terrible evil was triggered by a config push.

I woke up getting bombarded by multiple clients messages of sites not working, I shitted my pants because I&#x27;ve changed the config just yesterday. When I saw the  status message &quot;cloudflare down&quot; I was so relieved.

Did your colleague perhaps change the Cloudflare config again right now? Seems to be down again.

You should tell him his config change took down half the internet.

A colleague of mine just came bursting through my office door in a panic, thinking he brought our site down since this happened just as he made some changes to our Cloudflare config. He was pretty relieved to see this post.

Unfortunately downtime is just the cost of doing business. Everyone else using Cloudflare is in the same boat.

Our company is loosing money with every second of downtime.

Also seeing this on my websites hosted on cloudflare

down again, all my website rely on Cloudflare DNS are down

Insane, my website <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geddle.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geddle.com</a> totally down

Yes, most of things are down, recapthca, dns routing, proxy, etc.

Some of my websites are down. Says it&#x27;s the cloudflare network, when I click it it says generic things about my server likely being the issue.

Looks like it&#x27;s going up and down intermittently, maybe something is only half-rolled-out.

I&#x27;m still seeing some sites not working - ironically they&#x27;re down detectors:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statusfield.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;cloudflare" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statusfield.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;cloudflare</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statusgator.com&#x2F;services&#x2F;cloudflare" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statusgator.com&#x2F;services&#x2F;cloudflare</a>

It was down, then up, then back down for me.EDIT: And it&#x27;s back up.EDIT EDIT: And it&#x27;s back down lol

It came back up for me, now it&#x27;s down again.
EDIT: I am in the UK, using the London Cloudflare server.

Spoke too soon. The &quot;internet&quot; is down again.

Update: It seems to be back, the downtime lasted maybe 5-6 minutes

Back up for me nowEdit: and then back down again

When this kind of thing happens it makes me feel better about my own programming problems.I wonder if it has anything to do with the replicate.com purchase? Probably not.

You are joking but working on making decentralization more viable would indeed be more healthy than throwing hands up and accepting Cloudflare as the only option.

That&#x27;s why I run my server on 7100 chips made for me by Sam Zeloof in his garage on a software stack hand coded by me, on copper I ran personally to everyone&#x27;s house.

The danger of Internet centralization in Cloudflare

Looks like it. Even sites like isup.me seem to be down, lots of cloudflare error messages across the net

Getting a 500 error from cloudflare in Manchester

The error even kinda says that. Still assumed it&#x27;s me

Funny how I trusted Cloudflare first and started looking at restarting my servers, only to realize it&#x27;s not me this time :)

Another thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45963781">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45963781</a>UPD And <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45963949">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45963949</a>

Turnstile is throwing 500 internal server error

Same we use cloudflare as image cdn and its R2 service a lot, cant access anything over its cdn route

Cloudflare fully down for me and my team, half of internet just vanished

It&#x27;s insane to me that big internet uptime monitoring tools like Pingdom and Downdetector both seem to rely on Cloudflare, as both of those are currently unavailable as well.

Browser Working, Portland Cloudflare Error, apps.ideal-logic.com Host Working

I&#x27;m thinking about all those quips from a few decades back, along the lines of: &quot;The Internet is resilient, it&#x27;s distributed and it routes around damage&quot; etc.In many ways it&#x27;s still true, but it doesn&#x27;t feel like a given anymore.

Unfortunately it seems like it, our service has lost a portion of our Cloudflare connectivity. We use their tunnels functionality.Additionally, it looks like Pingdom&#x2F;Solarwinds authentication is affected too - not a great look for a service in that category.

No logging in to Cloudflare Dash, no passing Turnstile (their CAPTCHA Replacement Solution) on third-party websites not proxied by Cloudflare, the rest that are proxied throwing 500 Internal server error saying it&#x27;s Cloudflare&#x27;s fault…Feels like half the internet is down.

my cloudflare pages website is down - 500 server error :(cannot login to get to workers to check - auth errorsI thought this was the point of a cached CDN!

Not only discriminating robots but actual people &#x2F;s.

Always nice to see Pinkbike mentioned in the tech world :)

And others (ex. pinkbike) displaying &quot;you have been blocked&quot;.

I think the site (front-end) thinks you have blocked the domain through DNS or an extension; and thus suggests you unblock it. It is unthinkable that Cloudflare captchas could go down &#x2F;s.

The state of error handling in general is woeful, they do anything to avoid admitting they&#x27;re at fault so the negative screenshots don&#x27;t end up on social media.Blame the user or just leave them at an infinite spinning circle of death.I check the network tab and find the backend is actually returning a reasonable error but the frontend just hides it.Most recent one was a form saying my email was already in use, when the actual backend error returned was that the password was too long.

This takes down AI&#x2F;search on chat.bing.com (GPT5, unauthenticated).Funny, since I would have to prove to a an AI that I am human in the first place.

Interestingly, also noticing that websites that use Cloudflare Challenge (aka &quot;I&#x27;m not a Robot&quot;) are also throwing exceptions with a message as &quot;Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed&quot; - even though it&#x27;s just responding with an HTTP&#x2F;500.

Yeah, I was shocked. Disbelief that the host was up, which is what usually happens when the cloudflare&#x27;s page show up

Might be the first time I have ever seen that. Though in my case the &quot;Host&quot; is Cloudflare&#x27;s own Pages service.

And at the bottom:What can I do?Please try again in a few minutes.

That is really good to be honest!I have Cloudflare running in production and it is affecting us right now. But at least I know what is going on and how I can mitigate (e.g. disable Cloudflare as a proxy if it keeps affecting our services at skeeled).

In terms of probability looking at the history, it is correct. It&#x27;s mostly me messing up with the web server.

They still blame the customers when you click on &quot;Cloudflare&quot;:&gt; If the problem isn’t resolved in the next few minutes, it’s most likely an issue with the web server you were trying to reach.

That page has special if&#x2F;endif HTML comments to handle if your browser is IE 6, IE 7, IE 8...

I noticed that refreshing honesty too, not that the users did (our wifi is down fix it pls urgent)

I searched my logs for errors for about an hour before figuring out the problem was not on my server :D

I do appreciate the visual &quot;mea culpa&quot;:Your browser: WorkingHost: WorkingCloudflare: Error

Well, we&#x27;ve seen it now, they&#x27;ll have to update it eventually!

Me too. What good is a status page that&#x27;s not automated?

Everything else aside, 20 minutes to get their status page updated seems pretty damn fast.

They&#x27;ve just added it less than a minute ago. I expected a little more responsiveness from Cloudflare...

It&#x27;s been 15 minutes of it going up and down, still nothing on their status page...

Just were talking about how Replicate might have better availability due to joining Cloudflare, and they too went down... Oops.

Same here. A lot of my sites are now down.

I&#x27;ve been migrating all my personal stuff to Cloudflare. They have good products and good pricing.At the same time I&#x27;m worried about how the internet is becoming even more centralized, which goes against how it was originally designed.

All my websites are down due to Cloudflare

They consistently have scheduled maintenance.

From the Cloudflare status website: &quot;Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress.&quot; 
Maybe something went wrong while doing maintenance?

Yes. At least in Germany and Spain. Interment.

Even downdetector is down, I can&#x27;t get through the Cloudflate captcha.

&quot;Don&#x27;t get high on your own supply&quot;?

Indeed. And it feels really good knowing that our stuff isn&#x27;t in that half.

Love how everyone plays with redundancy - multiple hosts, balance loader, etc, and yet half of the web relies on single point of failure being CF

I had two completely unrelated tabs open (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onsensensei.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onsensensei.com</a>) both showing the same error. Opened another website, same error. Kinda funny to see how much of entire web is ran on CloudFlare nowadays.

So it begins. Now is the time to banish the evil presence from the internet. :D

I was joking that after AWS, Azure that the Cloudflare would be next one...So which large service we have left that could take chunk of internet out?

Came back up for a few minutes and has gone down again. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com</a> has nothing.

Keeps going up and down for me, I cant access DownDetector to check. The first website I noticed it on was Blender Artists.

i am trying to this page <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptoquip.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptoquip.net&#x2F;</a> but it is showing, Cloudflare
Error

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com</a> - has been updated.

Except on HNHAHA!Our servers are still down, though

Most of those aren’t outages, and both providers have big blips.Globally meaningful outages of either are quite rare.

One is every seven years... the other one is a ...monthly event?: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=cloudflare%20issues&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=story" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=al...</a>

When Azure goes down: Oh wellWhen Cloudflare goes down: Oh no

Everyone is silent when Cloudflare collapses. Same goes for Azure, but that is because noone uses it.

Yeah, how ironic. The site that is designed to tell you if something else is down, is currently down.

Because those who were mocking him couldn&#x27;t speak, X also crashed.

Sadly, I can report that this has brought down 2 of the major Mastodon nodes in the United Kingdom.Happily, the small ones that I also use are still going without anyone apparently even noticing. At least, the subject has yet to reach their local timelines at the time that I write this.2 of the other major U.K. nodes are still up, too.

&quot;Most people&quot; were never on Twitter to begin with. However its number of monthly active users have only grown since 2020.

This would be true in the past but now most people are not on Twitter.

Peter Levels wisdom about why to host not on aws not looking so wise right now

There&#x27;s no evidence to suggest it was a result of a DDoS attack

Cloudflare down because of a DDOS is extremely funny.

&gt; Everyone laughs when AWS collapses, everyone is silent when Cloudflare collapsesEveryone laughs when Azure collapses too

Everyone laughs when AWS collapses, everyone is silent when Cloudflare collapses. Why? Because the place to laugh has collapsed.

It&#x27;s down here in Sydney as well. The status page hasn&#x27;t been updated to reflect that

It was on Mastodon. That one is hardly going down.

Funny that I could not load Twitter to see if Cloudflare was down.I rushed to Hacker News, but it was too early. Clicking on “new” did the job to find this post before making it to the Homepage:)The web is still alive!

while my colleagues are wondering why cloudlfare isn&#x27;t working and are afraid it might be something from us locally, I&#x27;ll first check here to make sure it&#x27;s not a Cloudflare &#x2F; AWS problem in the first place.

I actually came here to check because downforeveryoneorjustme.com and downdetector are offline as well.

HN has become the place to check if any HyperScaler + Cloudflare is down.

Down, but the linked status page shows mostly operational, except for &quot;Support Portal Availability Issues&quot; and planned maintenance. Since it was linked, I&#x27;m curious if others see differently.edit: It now says &quot;Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues&quot; but it took a while.

And centralization is ineffective long term

A shark is an extremely energy efficient creature, but it is relatively stupid.

Decentralisation is at some point directly opposed to operational efficiency, when the sun is shining.

It actually is.I run a small video game forum with posts going back to 2008. We got absolutely smashed by bots scraping for training data for LLMs.So I put it behind Cloudflare and now it&#x27;s down. Ho hum.

I’ve been DDoS’d countless times running a small scale, uncontroversial SaaS. Without them I would’ve had countless downtime periods with really no other way to mitigate.

Good chance the reason DDOSing isn&#x27;t so big anymore is because everyone is on Cloudflare.

It&#x27;s the web-scrapers. I run a tiny little mom and pop website, and the bots were consistently using up all of my servers&#x27; resources. Cloudfare more or less instantly resolved it.

It&#x27;s not super common, but common enough that I don&#x27;t want to deal with it.The other part is just how convenient it is with CF. Easy to configure, plenty of power and cheap compared to the other big ones. If they made their dashboard and permission-system better (no easy way to tell what a token can do last I checked), I&#x27;d be even more of a fan.If Germany&#x27;s Telekom was forced to peer on DE-CIX, I&#x27;d always use CF. Since they aren&#x27;t and CF doesn&#x27;t pay for peering, it&#x27;s a hard choice for Germany but an easy one everywhere else.

DDOSing is absolutely so rampant that you need to be behind something.

Cloudflare DDOS protection is super essential (especially for smaller businesses)

Honestly it kinda is. Ai bots scrape everything now, social media means you can go viral suddenly, or you make a post that angers someone and they launch an attack just because. I default to cloudflare, because like an umbrella I might just be carrying it around most of the time, but in the case of a sudden downpoor it&#x27;s better than getting wet.

There are plenty of alternatives to protect against DDoSing, people like convenience though. “Nobody gets fired for choosing Microsoft&#x2F;Cloudflare”. We have a culture problem

I was arrested by Interpol in 2018 because of warrants issued by the NCA, DOJ, FBI, J-CAT, and several other agencies, all due to my involvement in running a DDoS-for-hire website. Honestly, anyone can bypass Cloudflare, and anyone that want to take your website down - will take it down. It&#x27;s just that luckily for all of us most of the DDoS-4-hire websites are down nowadays but there are still many botnets out there that will get past basically any protection and you can get access to them for basically $5.

There&#x27;s plenty of DDoS if you&#x27;re dealing with people petty enough.The VPS I use will nuke your instance if you run a game server. Not due to resource usage, but because it attracts DDoS like nothing else. Ban a teen for being an asshole and expect your service to be down for a week. And there isn&#x27;t really Cloudflare for independent game servers. There&#x27;s Steam Networking but it requires the developer to support it and of course Steam.Valve&#x27;s GDC talk about DDoS mitigation for games: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;2CQ1sxPppV4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;2CQ1sxPppV4</a>

Why everyone needs to be behind Cloudflare. I don&#x27;t think DDOSing sites out of whim is so rampant that everyone needs the virtual umbrella.

There’s certainly a business case for “which nines” after the talk of n nines. You ideally want to be available when your competitor, for instance, is not.

Well I can&#x27;t change my NS since it&#x27;s on Cloudflare too but besides that my personal opinion was not about this outage in particular but more the default approach of some websites that don&#x27;t need all this tech (yes I really was out of groceries)

Think about this rationally. If Cloudflare doesn&#x27;t fix it within reasonable time, you can just point to different name servers and have your problem fixed in minutes.So why be on Cloudflare to start with? Well, if you have a more reliable way then there&#x27;s no reason. If you have a less reliable way, then you&#x27;re on average better off with Cloudflare.

&gt; if Cloudflare is down no one will blame you since the internet is down.That is true. it is also the problem. It means the biggest providers do not even need to bother to be reliable because everyone will use them anyway.

&gt; if Cloudflare is down no one will blame you since the internet is down.But this is not really the case. When Azure&#x2F;AWS were down, same as this one with Cloudflare: significant amount of web was down but most of it was not. It just makes more obvious which provider you use.

&quot;Accountability Sinks&quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aworkinglibrary.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;accountability-sinks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aworkinglibrary.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;accountability-sinks</a>

It&#x27;s hard not to use Cloudflare at least for me: good products, &quot;free&quot; for small projects, and if Cloudflare is down no one will blame you since the internet is down.

Two domains for your api perhaps, a full blown SPA could try one and then the other.

&gt; Setting up a replica and then pointing your api requests at it when cloudflare request fails is trivial.Only if you&#x27;re doing very basic proxy stuff. If you stack multiple features and maybe even start using workers, there may be no 1:1 alternatives to switch to. And definitely not trivially.

Setting up a replica and then pointing your api requests at it when cloudflare request fails is trivial. This way if you have a SPA and as long as your site&#x2F;app is open the users won&#x27;t notice.The issue is DNS since DNS propagation takes time. Does anyone have any ideas here?

BLOCKCHAINS! I mean, some sort of P2P hosting and&#x2F;or node discovery would be nice.

You have the power to not host your own infrastructure on aws and behind cloudflare, or in the case of an employer you have the power to fight against the voices arguing for the unsustainable status quo.

The HN crowd in particular absolutely has a say in this, given the amount of engineering leads, managers, and even just regular programmers&#x2F;admins&#x2F;etc that frequent here - all of whom contribute to making these decisions.

&gt; At some point we really need to think if this is the web we want,You think we have a say in this?

Believe me it’s what people want. The alternative is far worse.

It&#x27;s not the web we want, but it&#x27;s the web corporations want. And everybody else doesn&#x27;t give a damn.

We? I am not using it. I never used it and I will not use it. People should learn how to work with firewall, setup a simple ModSecurity WAF and stop using this bullshit. Almost everything goes through cloudflare and cloudflare also does TLS fronting for websites so basically cloudflare is MITM spying proxy but no one seem to care. :&#x2F;

At some point we really need to think if this is the web we want, one&#x2F;two major actors are down and everything goes with itNot downplaying the immense work of infra &#x2F; engineering at this scale but my neighborhood local grocery market shouldn’t be down

80% of web sites I visited in last 15 minutes are not available anymore, LOL

Indeed, it worked for 2 minutes, but not anymore.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;8gmgl950y3h7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;8gmgl950y3h7</a>

Just now it was acknowledge in the status page.

Checks Cloudflare Status - yeah, everything&#x27;s hunky dory bro.

I started restarting my own servers thinking something went awry again, that&#x27;s how much I usually trust them not to be down. Interesting.

Now is as good a time as ever to look at moving our eggs into some other baskets

Telnyx seems to be down for me. Actually I lied, I think it is working. at least call connected.

&gt; What&#x27;s the point of having a status page if it lies ?Status pages are basically marketing crap right now. The same thing happened with Azure where it took at least 45 minutes to show any change. They can&#x27;t be trusted.

Please read my comment again including the update:For 15 minute cloudflare wasn&#x27;t working and the status page did not mentioned anything. Yes, right now the status page mentions the serious network problem but for some time our pages were not working and we didn&#x27;t know what was happening.So for ~ 15 minutes the status page lied. The whole point of a status page is to not lie, i.e to be updated automatically when there are problem and not by a person that needs to get clearance on what and how to write.

&gt;However the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;</a> does not really mention anything relevant. What&#x27;s the point of having a status page if it lies ?What is the lie ?&gt; Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issuescloudflare has a specific service names &quot;Network&quot; and it&#x27;s having issues..

Cloudflare seems to have degrated performance. Half the requests for my site throw cloudflare 500x errors, the other half work fine.However the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;</a> does not really mention anything relevant. What&#x27;s the point of having a status page if it lies ?Update Ah I just checked the status and now I get a big red warning (however the problem existed for like 15 minutes before 11:48 UTC):&gt; 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

They better not be using AI to fix this... especially if AI is what caused it! (looking at you, AWS)

For me right now, Claude.ai is down, but Claude Code (terminal, extension) seems to be up and happy. Suggests that API is probably up.

Seems like ChatGPT and Claude are also affected. (CLI Codex still seems to work).RIP to the engineers fixing this without any AI help.

I had just deployed. Started reverting commits like crazy.

I think everyone is in the same boat with thinking they took something offline :^)Concerning though how much the web relies on one (great) service.

Things are back up (a second time) for me. It doesn’t sound like they are confident the problem is fully fixed yet thoughEdit: and down again a third time!

&gt;Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues&gt;Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.&gt;Posted 4 minutes ago<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;8gmgl950y3h7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;8gmgl950y3h7</a>

&gt; Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues&gt; Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.Things are back up (a second time) for me.Cloudflare have updated their status page now to reflect the problems now. It doesn’t sound like they are confident the problem is fully fixed yet.Edit: and down again a third time!

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 UTCYeah, those multiple customers is like 70% of the internet.

Funny how I couldn&#x27;t even check on Downdetector.com - because it takes me to a Cloudfare-run captcha, which is now stuck on loading.The internet is officially down.

It would have been ironic had this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thewebsiteisdown.com&#x2F;salesguy.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thewebsiteisdown.com&#x2F;salesguy.html</a> been hosted behind cloudflare.

It would appear if you use a VPN in Europe you can still access Cloudflare sites, I have just tried, for me the Netherlands, Germany, and France work, but the UK and USA don&#x27;t.EDIT: It would appear it is still unreliable in these countries, it just stopped working in France for me.

I&#x27;ve been considering Cloudflare for caching, DDoS protection and WAF, but I don&#x27;t like furthering the centralization of the Web. And my host (Vultr) has had fantastic uptime over the 10 years I&#x27;ve been on them.How are others doing this? How is Hacker News hosted&#x2F;protected?

In Yorkshire they would say &quot;up and down like a bride&#x27;s nightie&quot;

Was back up for a moment ( within 5 minutes of being down), currently down again

We&#x27;re on the enterprise plan, so far we&#x27;re seeing Dashboard degradation and Turnstile (their captcha service) down. But all proxying&#x2F;CDN and other services seem to work well.