163 points by wonderfuly 2 hours ago
163 points by wonderfuly 2 hours ago
Raise your hands if you don't use Cloudflare in your stack and are proud of your decision.
You are the future of the operational internet!
I have it pointed at my domains just for basic stuff and luckily that seems to be working at least.
We use Render which apparently uses Cloudflare. It went down.
Hard to know what 3rd party services you depend on uses Cloudflare.
I’d argue that the big 3 cloud providers have more outages than this, only cloudflare actually lets you know.
I've been operating a relatively small digital platform for 15 years. We don't use Cloudflare, for bots, we use tirreno (1), which we specifically created to filter malicious traffic.
For hosting, we use a local and sovereign EU provider.
If tomorrow Cloudflare, Amazon, and Microsoft were to somehow disappear or go permanently down, I wouldn't even notice.
How crazy is it that Lime bikes become unusable if Cloudflare goes down? I hope Waymos are not on cloudflare
If all you use them for is caching, then they could provide webhooks for their scheduled maintenance so customers can disable cloudflare during the maintenance and reenable it once it's all good.
However, for customers using other things, perhaps we need an independent cloudflare for cloudflare service that serves its own cache of your site when cloudflare is inaccessible.
Could combine the two ideas so when there is scheduled cloudflare maintenance, it switches dns to the cloudflare for cloudflare service that uses cloudflare if online but if cloudflare is offline then serves cache, and once cloudflare maintenance is finished then restore cloudflare dns.
Plex, Plexamp, and accounts in Sonos went down.
This happening exactly when the ticket sale for Evanescence was happening, in which the payment method was hosted on Cloudflare was really funny,
including downdetector... that's annoying https://downdetector.com/status/npm/
And https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com says that https://downdetector.com/ is up! >:( What a world we live in
which is at least detected by https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector....
Chess dot com was affected, I got a Cloudflare internal server error at the end of one of my matches.
Will you consider it a stalemate if no party is able to make any further moves?
Btw a Chess Olympiad was declared drawn and shared winners after internet issues.
I would have probably considered whoever was up material as the winner, as long at there was sufficient time left.
I guess it had an active connection through the game end though, maybe web sockets. I was afraid it wasn't recorded because I played quite well!
This needs to be changed, whole web was stopped working - it's a big responsibility and Cloudflare should acknowledge it.
Complexity is the enemy of availability (and security, and a few more things besides).
Maybe some company could start up that had decentralized backups/mirrors/caches of websites in case cloudflare goes down...
Is perplexity down too as a result of this? Seeing mixed reports
HB1 in action
Gitlab is affected as well :(
Docker Hub is affected as well
LinkedIn was also affected.
we are back up I think
Looks like this time they first considered that they screwed up themselves, unlike the last time when they were fighting a phantom attack for a while until they realized that it was their own fault.
why tinyurl.com was down...
Am I tripping cuz I saw this a while ago
You remember correctly: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
Hm, it’s over.
who else was woken up in the middle of the night for on-call pages because of cloudflare?
And now it is back up
Another Option::unwrap incident perchance?
According to UpDog [0], the incident only lasted 35 minutes (8:40 - 9:15). And the Cloudflare status page seems to validate this timeline.
While down times are not ideal, that's quite an impressive achievement to be able to resolve an incident of this scale in minutes - not hours.
> “only” lasted 35 minutes
That single incident drops their uptime to four nines. Combine it with other recent incidents and they’re probably at three nines. That’s amateur level.
> that's quite an impressive achievement
No it isn’t. Good grief.
it affected CDN services as well, i don't know or understand why that's not mentioned in the status page.
Having this kind of outage on a friday after what happened last month though is not a good thing... Props to them for getting back up so quickly but come on, these kinds of outages were not a thing a while back.