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.
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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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
It seems that this could be another attempt to launch a DDOS on Cloudflare. If so, who is leading this and why?
A mere 16 minutes after the previous update, Cloudflare has updated the page with the same message as before.
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue. Nov 18, 2025 - 12:53 UTC
Why the same message? Because they are still investigating the issue, and because the incident management team will have to provide timely updates for their service level agreement. In a previous life I was an incident manager, so I can imagine the situation at Cloudflare's office.
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Even 3D printer enthusiasts are feeling the sting of Cloudflare's outage. I visited Printables and Thangs to search for some fish bone models to print (long story) and both have the dreaded HTTP 500 error code.
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X is down again and the Cloudflare information page shows that the issue is occurring on its systems. My browser and the X servers are both working, but Cloudflare's infrastructure is not. An error code 500 confirms that it is a Cloudflare server issue.
Over on the Cloudflare System Status page we can see that Cloudflare are still investigating the issue (12:37 UTC). Services have started to recover, but there will be higher than normal error rates while the sys admins work on fixing the issue.
The investigation is looking into HTTP 500 errors (errors occurring at the server level) that impact the dashboard and the Cloudflare API.
Could we soon be making the usual "It's not DNS... it was DNS" jokes? Was someone vibe coding the DNS entries? We'll find out when the post mortem happens.
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Downdetector, the outage monitoring site saw 11,201 reports of issues at 11:37AM GMT today. At the last data point, there are 6,570 reports. This could mean that the fix is making its way across the Internet, or that people know about the issue, and and no longer reporting it.
X affected
X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing intermittent issues as a result of the outage. The platform is currently available, but availability has been patchy for the last hour or so.
Cloudflare says "We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly."
Cloudflare was previously undergoing scheduled maintenance at 10am UTC, according to the company's website. However, the latest update into Cloudflare's System Status states:
Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing.
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.
