But it wasn't my fault fellas... Promise.
CNBCCloudflare down: Company blames 'unusual' spike in traffic before outage errors20 minutes ago
CNBCCloudflare down: Company blames 'unusual' spike in traffic before outage errors20 minutes ago
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jimkinney
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That's what I tell my wife, she doesn't believe me either!
aka Larry
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I rebooted my computer twice because I thought it was on my end.
kbuhagiar
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It was a Cloudflare thing. The one site I manage also went down because of it.
Hope they have a permanent fix because Cloudflare was a godsend for us, it allowed us to keep our site up and running.
Without it we'd be history.
Hope they have a permanent fix because Cloudflare was a godsend for us, it allowed us to keep our site up and running.
Without it we'd be history.
All good Ryan, but it screwed up my morning coffee schedule something fierce 
The company I work for has become 1000% dependent on procore. Timecards, document processing, etc. many of us middle management folks have expressed our concerns over this migration.
Ya’d have thought the world ended this morning with this outage. What a shitshow.
The company I work for has become 1000% dependent on procore. Timecards, document processing, etc. many of us middle management folks have expressed our concerns over this migration.
Ya’d have thought the world ended this morning with this outage. What a shitshow.
Bad Eye Bill
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Several forums I frequent that use Cloudflare were all down this morning.
I assume a maintenance deal?
I assume a maintenance deal?
mrb1
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txvwnut
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Yeah just heard it on the radio that Cloudfare was down affecting people and businesses nation wide. Noticed it when I went to order some tires and my supplier link wouldn't work.
mrb1
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Hard to check with the most popular "Is It Down" website and.....yep, they're down 
(working now also)
www.isitdownrightnow.com
(working now also)
Helps you find whether the website you are trying to browse is down or not. Check if the website is down just for you or everyone around the globe.
Is It Down Right Now? Website Down or Not?
LopezBart
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Just don't get stuck on the lather, rinse, repeat loop.
DGersic
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Looks like it’s not quite done yet.
Shiftless
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How many of us geezers are right now thinking that our world has become entirely too dependent on one big master computer system without which business shuts down?
OP
That's probably the longest "almost global" outage I've ever seen? Started at around 4:30am central and only seems to be have fixed by 10:30am or so... My account rep says it was almost certainly nefarious.
txvwnut
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I'm not quite geezer age yet but this is my thought as well.
zimman
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Several members reporting heart palpitations. It's going to be okay.
Zim
Zim
Nobody-named-Olli
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Always a fun time when these gatekeepers go out. And it’s far from fixed.
Kind regards,
Olli
Kind regards,
Olli
niget2002
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Looks like it's still flaky.
Shiftless
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This outage once again showcases how vulnerable we are to a cyber attack. You don’t need a big army. You don’t need missiles.
Where is the redundancy to better protect business and banking systems?
OP
Cloudlfare is sort of like a firewall. Them going down protects our data. But yes, I 100% agree.
Me trying to get on GJ.
rust in the eye
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That's a bit scary
Shiftless
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I like comic understatement.
ArcReactorKC
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yes and no. I have been a vehement supporter of on-prem and without our stuff being onsite we would have major issues.
But on the other hand all of our remote tools were down today because we use cloudflare as our DNS provider. It is literally the only "single point of failure" in the entire workflow.
I've got 5 power sources. Redundant supplies in every system and all systems have a clone on a rack in the shop with failover. 3 WAN sources.
And we still got bit by cloudflare, so it's time to figure out how I'm going to attack that. This was the first time we had this scenario but the attacks on cloudflare continue to grow.
There is some redundancy in place, but added redundancy costs money. Until businesses start losing money on a regular basis, don't hold your breath waiting for a bulletproof environment.
Ohio Andy
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Yeah, but you're not the only ones who had trouble because of this.... My employer sent out an emergency notification using the same system used for things like active shooter to let us know.
pcmeiners
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"I had to read the back of the shampoo bottle." Just the thought of this makes me want to hide under the covers
Doesn't seem to be an attack this time:
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Sounds like a self-inflicted wound.
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Cloudflare CTO speaks out:
I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I apologize for the impact that we caused. Transparency about what happened matters, and we plan to share a breakdown with more details in a few hours. In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack. That issue, impact it caused, and time to resolution is unacceptable. Work is already underway to make sure it does not happen again, but I know it caused real pain today. The trust our customers place in us is what we value the most and we are going to do what it takes to earn that back.Sounds like a self-inflicted wound.
niget2002
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And now github is having issues. This one does affect me.
cody1325
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It's weird how much of the web AWS and Cloudflare alone are responsible for.
That being said, most of the forums I'm on (all but a couple VBulletin-hosted) were down when I dragged my rear out of bed this morning).
That being said, most of the forums I'm on (all but a couple VBulletin-hosted) were down when I dragged my rear out of bed this morning).
CraigStu
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Yep, I ran out of forums to look into and had to get back to my bead board, chair rail project at 900AM instead of the more usual 930 to 10 am start of workday. 1st world problems like this ****.
OccupantRJ
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We have several ipads now since I bought new ones so I checked it on another one and got the same results.
Excuses are like, well. . . . we all know.
However, this one almost sounds like somebody that has a serious concern and skin in the game.
Meursault74
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you know, that's just a conspiracy to get you to use more shampoo.
Meursault74
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I heard on the radio this morning on the way to work that parts of the internet were down. Sorry I missed it.
WillyBoy
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Other forums that I look at from time to time have been under attack lately by what the moderators call "bots".
They've gone to a captcha solve for log-in after the user name and password. Maybe connected, maybe not.
Multiple scams in the email lately, four times a day I get notified that my cloud storage is
FULL
BROKEN
NEEDS MORE MONEY
BLAH BLAH
sigh
They've gone to a captcha solve for log-in after the user name and password. Maybe connected, maybe not.
Multiple scams in the email lately, four times a day I get notified that my cloud storage is
FULL
BROKEN
NEEDS MORE MONEY
BLAH BLAH
sigh
ArcReactorKC
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Bot storms have become a daily occurrence to a lot of us. Usually in the form of DDoSOther forums that I look at from time to time have been under attack lately by what the moderators call "bots".
They've gone to a captcha solve for log-in after the user name and password. Maybe connected, maybe not.
Multiple scams in the email lately, four times a day I get notified that my cloud storage is
FULL
BROKEN
NEEDS MORE MONEY
BLAH BLAH
sigh
Our critical power website gets attacked daily, this has been going on for a few years now. Cloudflare has actually done a lot to help alleviate the issue, having quad redundancy for the critical systems applications has been the ultimate cure but I don't know for how much longer.
Looking at traffic on most of my domains it's less than 20% bots of any kind. Our critical power domain is over 90% I think it is attacked because on the surface is seems like critical infrastructure to a non-native English speaker.
As we do the ultimate relay from customer equipment to our app on their phones it's imperative that our systems work for customer ease of mind. (their equipment will do it's thing without our connection, we're just there so they can see the equipment remotely) This is one of the things that pushed me into my on-prem data center in the shipping containers. I'll need to make a thread about these when I get one of them to a respectable state.
Fortunately our app does direct IP resolve with no caching between so all of that works without cloudflare, and the failover does as well.
We're now migrating to a multi-provider authoritave DNS which means migrating away from cloudflare as a whole since they are a primary only and don't jive with having a secondary. Planning to use CloudDNS and Zonomi for this but I'll move one domain at a time to see how well it works. My concern is even if I move all of my domains to a more reliable system there is a jump point in the middle that is still cloudflare somewhere I may not know about.