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.

Raise your hands if you found out you use cloudflare three weeks ago.

Luckily there is Privacy terms that usually disclose this.

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.

1. https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno

Better link: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q

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

and https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com is down

which is at least detected by https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector....

I really expected that one to be a joke

Good god, what have we done ...

This is now my favorite post on HN

Turtles!(Expletive!)

https://updog.ai/status/cloudflare works.

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191

This happening exactly when the ticket sale for Evanescence was happening, in which the payment method was hosted on Cloudflare was really funny,

How crazy is it that Lime bikes become unusable if Cloudflare goes down? I hope Waymos are not on cloudflare

If Waymos do not use local models it would be a horrible decision.

Seems incredibly irresponsible if you ask me...

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!

There are actual rules for stalemate, so it would probably just be a draw.

Probably an abort. Draw awards Elo.

hahaha, this is how I found out too!

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 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).

Is perplexity down too as a result of this? Seeing mixed reports

It means half of the internet isn't (wasn't) working.

Maybe some company could start up that had decentralized backups/mirrors/caches of websites in case cloudflare goes down...

HB1 in action

Docker Hub is affected as well

Gitlab is affected as well :(

Yeah affected me too. I have code to push dang it!!!

LinkedIn was also affected.

You would think they would use Azure for CDN, but apparently not.

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/

Im thinking the same thing..

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

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.

They probably jusr reverted last change?

> “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.