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!

emsixteen 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I have it pointed at my domains just for basic stuff and luckily that seems to be working at least.

aurareturn 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We use Render which apparently uses Cloudflare. It went down.

Hard to know what 3rd party services you depend on uses Cloudflare.

	▲	torginus 16 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Raise your hands if you found out you use cloudflare three weeks ago.
	▲	reconnecting 17 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Luckily there is Privacy terms that usually disclose this.

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llama052 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’d argue that the big 3 cloud providers have more outages than this, only cloudflare actually lets you know.

	▲	reconnecting 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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

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szundi 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

[dead]

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balupton 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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Eldodi 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	saretup 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If Waymos do not use local models it would be a horrible decision.
	▲	hyperbolablabla 15 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Seems incredibly irresponsible if you ask me...

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jakewins an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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ponys 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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TACIXAT 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Chess dot com was affected, I got a Cloudflare internal server error at the end of one of my matches.

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stacktrace 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Will you consider it a stalemate if no party is able to make any further moves?

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manojlds 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Btw a Chess Olympiad was declared drawn and shared winners after internet issues.

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TACIXAT 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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!

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nurettin 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	reassess_blind 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Probably an abort. Draw awards Elo.

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dwayne_dibley 15 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

hahaha, this is how I found out too!

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Akronymus an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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nsiradze 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This needs to be changed, whole web was stopped working - it's a big responsibility and Cloudflare should acknowledge it.

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willsmith72 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

including downdetector... that's annoying https://downdetector.com/status/npm/

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philipp-gayret an hour ago | parent | next [-]

And https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com says that https://downdetector.com/ is up! >:( What a world we live in

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phito 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

and https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com is down

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tomudding 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	frizlab 30 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I really expected that one to be a joke
	▲	nolok 31 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Good god, what have we done ...
	▲	nurettin 27 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		This is now my favorite post on HN
	▲	cyanydeez 31 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Turtles!(Expletive!)

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KptMarchewa 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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dlillard0 32 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

[dead]

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nickdothutton 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Complexity is the enemy of availability (and security, and a few more things besides).

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gblargg 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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rohannn 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	pietz 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It means half of the internet isn't (wasn't) working.

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rodwyersoftware 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HB1 in action

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jansan 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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rifycombine1 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Gitlab is affected as well :(

	▲	Morizero 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah affected me too. I have code to push dang it!!!

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programmexxx 17 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

why tinyurl.com was down...

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santiagobasulto 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Docker Hub is affected as well

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gem4508 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LinkedIn was also affected.

	▲	andrewl-hn 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You would think they would use Azure for CDN, but apparently not.

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georgestrakhov 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

we are back up I think

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alexander2002 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Am I tripping cuz I saw this a while ago

	▲	Buttons840 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You remember correctly: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
	▲	sammy2255 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Im thinking the same thing..

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yapyap 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hm, it’s over.

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swagmoose 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

who else was woken up in the middle of the night for on-call pages because of cloudflare?

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rzmmm 20 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Another Option::unwrap incident perchance?

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mhovd 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And now it is back up

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darkamaul 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

[0]: https://updog.ai/status/cloudflare

	▲	rvba 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They probably jusr reverted last change?
	▲	antonvs 21 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> “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.
	▲	gowthamgts12 25 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		it affected CDN services as well, i don't know or understand why that's not mentioned in the status page.
	▲	powerpixel 25 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.