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Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
- Filligree 11mo agoIt's the first time it's been down that I've seen a sensible error message. But I was supposed to be commuting, so I guess I'll do that.
- pc2g4d 11mo agoI was reading up on home lab server racks, and every single site is down with a Cloudflare error. So much for DIY!
- gynecologist 11mo agoChatGPT was down so I couldn't work, go to lichess, turns out, it's down too now what do i do?
- delichon 11mo agoTouch grass.
- mghackerlady 11mo agoyour username makes me wonder what exactly your job is, and what you need ChatGPT for
- handshake_dns 11mo ago[dead]
- cromka 11mo agoWow, with outage of a scale like this, it must be measurable as a loss in global GDP
- hoppp 11mo agoCloudflare is a central point of failure.
- easternherald 11mo agoThe Eastern Herald news website is down. Easternherald.com
- deleted 11mo ago[deleted]
- ImScope052300 11mo agoDude what's up with X???
- chromehearts 11mo agoAnd here I was wondering why my website shut down & why I couldn't tweet about it
- prityush14 11mo agowhen ig went down, I came to X to post Now that X is down, is hn the place to be
- deleted 11mo ago[deleted]
- m11a 11mo agoSo ... any bets the cause isn't DNS?
- pc2g4d 11mo agoWe still doing BGP update typos?
- marcosdumay 11mo agoNope. Looks like they have a DNS-like configuration manager...
- reassess_blind 11mo agoWho wants to join me at the Winchester for a pint, and wait for this all to blow over?
- Dilettante_ 11mo agoGot some red on you...
- enceeee 11mo agopoland down
- BilalBudhani 11mo agoeverything is down except HN :D
- jsheard 11mo agoThe just-one-big-server-in-someones-basement stack remains undefeated.
- mambru 11mo agoExcept it isn't that big?
- gjsman-1000 11mo agoI don’t know; HN historically has had way worse uptime than Cloudflare.
- sph 11mo ago[citation needed]
- allanmacgregor 11mo agoDigg.com is working perfectly hahahaha
- mrweasel 11mo agoIt's a little surprising how little it affect me. I believe it's around 20% of websites that use CloudFlare in some form or another.
- 52-6F-62 11mo agoBunnycdn lives
- mlashcorp 11mo agoPagerduty is up
- abcd43210 11mo ago[dead]
- imdsm 11mo agoRelated to Azure DDoS? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955900
- alexdns 11mo agowhats your chain of thought here ? a company that has nothing to do with azure is down because azure got ddosed 2 weeks ago ?
- Jordan-117 11mo agoMaybe that any actor sophisticated enough to take down Azure might also target Cloudflare?
- hirako2000 11mo agoEspecially when the next happens to be a major DDOS mitigator.
- polisaez 11mo agoMaybe related to their scheduled maintenance? https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
- chedabob 11mo agoI thought that as we're seeing issues with LON, but their Manchester POP is also down and that didn't have any maintenance this morning.
- pstation 11mo agoIronically I can't even read the link in the article because cloudflare is down.
- watermelon0 11mo agoLinked Microsoft blog article mentions that DDoS was in October.
- its_notjack 11mo agoIronically, DownDetector seems to be down because it protects its site with Cloudflare Turnstile... which is also down!
- imdsm 11mo agoI noticed this too!
- thrdbndndn 11mo agoThe report there for AWS also skyrocketed, but I guess it's probably false positives?
- Macha 11mo agoEven many non tech people have begun to associate Internet wide outages with “aws must be down” so I imagine many of them searching “is aws down” and for down detector, a hit is a down report, so it will report aws impacts even when the culprit is cloudflare in this case
- mailund 11mo agointeresting, maybe "AWS is down" will become the new "the server is down" that some non-tech people throw around when anything unexpected happen on their computer?
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- imdsm 11mo agoInternet is down, I guess I'll just look out of the window for a bit
- break_the_bank 11mo agoAnds its back. It was a very short window to look out of the window.
- porridgeraisin 11mo agoNot too much window to see anyway
- ndsipa_pomu 11mo agoI was trying to look up banana-based jokes (https://upjoke.com/banana-jokes https://upjoke.com/banana-jokes) and discovered that London Cloudflare seems to be down. Then, I tried various down detecting sites and they didn't seem to work either - presumably due to Cloudflare.
- bagpuss 11mo agoit's a slippery slope alright
- hirako2000 11mo agoNot affected using tunnels, CDNs. it's probably related to the recent ddos attacks they helped mitigating.
- pavo-etc 11mo agoSaw cloudflare go down before my very eyes on colonist.io in Australia
- itzjacki 11mo agoA colleague of mine just came bursting through my office door in a panic, thinking he brought our site down since this happened just as he made some changes to our Cloudflare config. He was pretty relieved to see this post.
- Freak_NL 11mo agoIs there a word for that feeling of relief when someone else fucked up after initially thinking it was you?
- StanAngeloff 11mo agoSchadenfreude
- simonklitj 11mo agoNot quite, that’s more like taking pleasure in the misfortune of someone else. It’s close, but the specific relief bit that it is not _your_ misfortune is not captured
- skottenborg 11mo agoInternettet er vist ikke så stort :-)
- simonklitj 11mo agoFætter! Hvor genialt at se dig her. :)
- gnfargbl 11mo agoNah, that's delight in someone else's misfortune. This is delight that the misfortune wasn't yours, which is slightly different.
- StanAngeloff 11mo ago
- pySilver 11mo agoOur company is loosing money with every second of downtime.
- Vista2003 11mo agoUnfortunately downtime is just the cost of doing business. Everyone else using Cloudflare is in the same boat.
- vldszn 11mo agoAlso seeing this on my websites hosted on cloudflare
- surrTurr 11mo agox is also not working properly
- Folyd 11mo agoInsane, my website https://geddle.com https://geddle.com totally down
- herbst 11mo agoSome of my websites are down. Says it's the cloudflare network, when I click it it says generic things about my server likely being the issue.
- skrebbel 11mo agoyep
- break_the_bank 11mo agoUpdate: It seems to be back, the downtime lasted maybe 5-6 minutes
- break_the_bank 11mo agoSpoke too soon. The "internet" is down again.
- Batman8675309 11mo agoStill down for me.
- its_notjack 11mo agoLooks like it's going up and down intermittently, maybe something is only half-rolled-out.
- ndsipa_pomu 11mo agoI'm still seeing some sites not working - ironically they're down detectors: https://statusfield.com/status/cloudflare https://statusfield.com/status/cloudflare https://statusgator.com/services/cloudflare https://statusgator.com/services/cloudflare
- Sammi 11mo agoIt was down, then up, then back down for me. EDIT: And it's back up. EDIT EDIT: And it's back down lol
- techguy1954 11mo agoIt came back up for me, now it's down again. EDIT: I am in the UK, using the London Cloudflare server.
- astonfred 11mo agoDown again in London
- robotfelix 11mo agoBack up for me now
- fspoettel 11mo agoDown again
- robotfelix 11mo agoYep - down again for me too!
- robotfelix 11mo agoBack up for me now Edit: and then back down again
- Genego 11mo agoYes (Asia)
- ilaksh 11mo agoWhen this kind of thing happens it makes me feel better about my own programming problems. I wonder if it has anything to do with the replicate.com purchase? Probably not.
- bratao 11mo agoThe danger of Internet centralization in Cloudflare
- snitty 11mo agoThat's why I run my server on 7100 chips made for me by Sam Zeloof in his garage on a software stack hand coded by me, on copper I ran personally to everyone's house.
- deleted 11mo ago[deleted]
- cuu508 11mo agoYou are joking but working on making decentralization more viable would indeed be more healthy than throwing hands up and accepting Cloudflare as the only option.
- A_Venom_Roll 11mo agoLooks like it. Even sites like isup.me seem to be down, lots of cloudflare error messages across the net
- cbility 11mo agoGetting a 500 error from cloudflare in Manchester
- mittermayr 11mo agoFunny how I trusted Cloudflare first and started looking at restarting my servers, only to realize it's not me this time :)
- herbst 11mo agoThe error even kinda says that. Still assumed it's me
- r721 11mo agoAnother thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963781 UPD And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963949
- sammy2255 11mo agoTurnstile is throwing 500 internal server error
- re-thc 11mo agoDownflare
- js4ever 11mo agoCloudflare fully down for me and my team, half of internet just vanished
- deleted 11mo ago[deleted]
- teitoklien 11mo agoSame we use cloudflare as image cdn and its R2 service a lot, cant access anything over its cdn route
- mrintegrity 11mo agoIt's insane to me that big internet uptime monitoring tools like Pingdom and Downdetector both seem to rely on Cloudflare, as both of those are currently unavailable as well.
- andrew-jack 11mo ago[dead]
- stupidityonmaxx 11mo agodown detector works in serbia
- _9za9 11mo agoBrowser Working, Portland Cloudflare Error, apps.ideal-logic.com Host Working
- re-thc 11mo agoDownflare
- DC-3 11mo agoCloudflare'nt
- Terr_ 11mo agoI'm thinking about all those quips from a few decades back, along the lines of: "The Internet is resilient, it's distributed and it routes around damage" etc. In many ways it's still true, but it doesn't feel like a given anymore.
- zx76 11mo agoUnfortunately it seems like it, our service has lost a portion of our Cloudflare connectivity. We use their tunnels functionality. Additionally, it looks like Pingdom/Solarwinds authentication is affected too - not a great look for a service in that category.
- fny 11mo agoIronically, cloudflare.com is not down.
- ed_mercer 11mo agoYeah I wonder how that works
- Dilettante_ 11mo ago"Don't get high on your own supply"?
- StanAngeloff 11mo agoNo logging in to Cloudflare Dash, no passing Turnstile (their CAPTCHA Replacement Solution) on third-party websites not proxied by Cloudflare, the rest that are proxied throwing 500 Internal server error saying it's Cloudflare's fault… Feels like half the internet is down.
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- woodylondon 11mo agomy cloudflare pages website is down - 500 server error :( cannot login to get to workers to check - auth errors I thought this was the point of a cached CDN!
- Mojah 11mo agoInterestingly, also noticing that websites that use Cloudflare Challenge (aka "I'm not a Robot") are also throwing exceptions with a message as "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed" - even though it's just responding with an HTTP/500.
- wslh 11mo agoNot only discriminating robots but actual people /s.
- davidee 11mo agoAnd others (ex. pinkbike) displaying "you have been blocked".
- comprev 11mo agoAlways nice to see Pinkbike mentioned in the tech world :)
- csomar 11mo agoI think the site (front-end) thinks you have blocked the domain through DNS or an extension; and thus suggests you unblock it. It is unthinkable that Cloudflare captchas could go down /s.
- cube00 11mo agoThe state of error handling in general is woeful, they do anything to avoid admitting they're at fault so the negative screenshots don't end up on social media. Blame the user or just leave them at an infinite spinning circle of death. I check the network tab and find the backend is actually returning a reasonable error but the frontend just hides it. Most recent one was a form saying my email was already in use, when the actual backend error returned was that the password was too long.
- littlecranky67 11mo agoThis takes down AI/search on chat.bing.com (GPT5, unauthenticated). Funny, since I would have to prove to a an AI that I am human in the first place.
- davisonio 11mo agoEven downdetector is down, I can't get through the Cloudflate captcha.
- rvz 11mo agoWorking just fine in the UAE.
- gwd 11mo agoI do appreciate the visual "mea culpa": Your browser: Working Host: Working Cloudflare: Error
- mallets 11mo agoMight be the first time I have ever seen that. Though in my case the "Host" is Cloudflare's own Pages service.
- udev4096 11mo agoYeah, I was shocked. Disbelief that the host was up, which is what usually happens when the cloudflare's page show up
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- janmo 11mo agoAnd at the bottom: What can I do? Please try again in a few minutes.
- mig4ng 11mo agoThat is really good to be honest! I have Cloudflare running in production and it is affecting us right now. But at least I know what is going on and how I can mitigate (e.g. disable Cloudflare as a proxy if it keeps affecting our services at skeeled).
- Lukas_Skywalker 11mo agoThey still blame the customers when you click on "Cloudflare": > If the problem isn’t resolved in the next few minutes, it’s most likely an issue with the web server you were trying to reach.
- mig4ng 11mo agoIn terms of probability looking at the history, it is correct. It's mostly me messing up with the web server.
- WhereIsTheTruth 11mo agoWest's Great Firewall /s
- pelagicAustral 11mo agoYeah, dammit! NOT TODAY!!!
- alexcroox 11mo agoIt's been 15 minutes of it going up and down, still nothing on their status page...
- timpera 11mo agoThey've just added it less than a minute ago. I expected a little more responsiveness from Cloudflare...
- arkx 11mo agoMe too. What good is a status page that's not automated?
- timpera 11mo agoEspecially when it's the de facto status page for 20% of the internet!
- ArcHound 11mo agoI can answer that - once the lawyers take interest in your SLAs, you need to check with them if this is really an incident. Otherwise, you might lose some contract money and nobody wants that.
- rco8786 11mo agoThere are no truly automated status pages. It's an impossible problem. I mean that seriously. At scale you're collecting 100s of thousands (or mms) of metrics/spans/logs across 10s or 100s of loosely coupled systems. Building a system that can accurately analyze these and assess what the status page should say, in real time, without human intervention, is just not possible with current technology. Even just the basic question of "are we down or is our monitoring system just having issues" requires a human. And it's never "are we down", because these are distributed systems we're talking about. If service X goes down entirely, does that warrant a status page update? Yes? Turns out system X is just running ML jobs in the background and has no customer impact. If service Z's p95 response latency jumps from 10ms to 1500ms for 5 minutes, 500s spike at the same time, but overall 200s rate is around 98%, are we down? is that a status page update? Is that 1 bad actor trying to cause issues? Is that indicative of 2,000 customers experiencing an outage and the other 98,000 operating normally? Is that a bad rack switch that's causing a few random 500s across the whole customer base and the service will reject that node and auto-recover in a moment?
- red_Seashell_32 11mo agoJust were talking about how Replicate might have better availability due to joining Cloudflare, and they too went down... Oops.
- karimf 11mo agoI've been migrating all my personal stuff to Cloudflare. They have good products and good pricing. At the same time I'm worried about how the internet is becoming even more centralized, which goes against how it was originally designed.
- united_fan 11mo ago[dead]
- Mike1122 11mo agoAll my websites are down due to Cloudflare
- polisaez 11mo agoFrom the Cloudflare status website: "Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress." Maybe something went wrong while doing maintenance?
- Fysi 11mo agoThey consistently have scheduled maintenance.
- helloguillecl 11mo agoYes. At least in Germany and Spain. Interment.
- davisonio 11mo agoEven downdetector is down, I can't get through the Cloudflate captcha.
- tokioyoyo 11mo agoI had two completely unrelated tabs open (https://twitter.com https://twitter.com and https://onsensensei.com https://onsensensei.com) both showing the same error. Opened another website, same error. Kinda funny to see how much of entire web is ran on CloudFlare nowadays.
- Dennip 11mo agoStill down for me
- lofaszvanitt 11mo agoSo it begins. Now is the time to banish the evil presence from the internet. :D
- Ekaros 11mo agoI was joking that after AWS, Azure that the Cloudflare would be next one... So which large service we have left that could take chunk of internet out?
- sammy2255 11mo agoGcloud
- drcongo 11mo agoCame back up for a few minutes and has gone down again. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com https://www.cloudflarestatus.com has nothing.
- techguy1954 11mo agoKeeps going up and down for me, I cant access DownDetector to check. The first website I noticed it on was Blender Artists.
- imik768 11mo agoi am trying to this page https://cryptoquip.net/ https://cryptoquip.net/ but it is showing, Cloudflare Error
- lurkersince2013 11mo agohttps://www.cloudflarestatus.com https://www.cloudflarestatus.com - has been updated.
- entropoem 11mo agoEveryone laughs when AWS collapses, everyone is silent when Cloudflare collapses. Why? Because the place to laugh has collapsed.
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- Hedepig 11mo agoExcept on HN HAHA! Our servers are still down, though
- sutton12345 11mo agoHAHAHAHA
- imdsm 11mo agoI'm not sure whether to laugh or cry Maybe I'll do both
- sutton12345 11mo agoYEP that's the case nowwwww
- belter 11mo agoOne is every seven years... the other one is a ...monthly event?: https://hn.algolia.com/?https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=cloudflare%20issues&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=al...
- ceejayoz 11mo agoMost of those aren’t outages, and both providers have big blips. Globally meaningful outages of either are quite rare.
- yen223 11mo agoIt's down here in Sydney as well. The status page hasn't been updated to reflect that
- helloguillecl 11mo agoFunny that I could not load Twitter to see if Cloudflare was down. I rushed to Hacker News, but it was too early. Clicking on “new” did the job to find this post before making it to the Homepage:) The web is still alive!
- timeon 11mo agoIt was on Mastodon. That one is hardly going down.
- ksec 11mo agoHN has become the place to check if any HyperScaler + Cloudflare is down.
- montekristooGDB 11mo agowhile my colleagues are wondering why cloudlfare isn't working and are afraid it might be something from us locally, I'll first check here to make sure it's not a Cloudflare / AWS problem in the first place.
- timpera 11mo agoWhen was HN down for the last time? :)
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- zwog 11mo agoI actually came here to check because downforeveryoneorjustme.com and downdetector are offline as well.
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- mchinen 11mo agoDown, but the linked status page shows mostly operational, except for "Support Portal Availability Issues" and planned maintenance. Since it was linked, I'm curious if others see differently. edit: It now says "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues" but it took a while.
- erdaltoprak 11mo agoAt some point we really need to think if this is the web we want, one/two major actors are down and everything goes with it Not downplaying the immense work of infra / engineering at this scale but my neighborhood local grocery market shouldn’t be down
- eptcyka 11mo agoDecentralisation is at some point directly opposed to operational efficiency, when the sun is shining.
- starbugs 11mo agoAnd centralization is ineffective long term
- raxxorraxor 11mo agoA shark is an extremely energy efficient creature, but it is relatively stupid.
- Dilettante_ 11mo agoAt some point every website will be the equivalent of Surströmming
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- lofaszvanitt 11mo agoWhy everyone needs to be behind Cloudflare. I don't think DDOSing sites out of whim is so rampant that everyone needs the virtual umbrella.
- frameset 11mo agoIt actually is. I run a small video game forum with posts going back to 2008. We got absolutely smashed by bots scraping for training data for LLMs. So I put it behind Cloudflare and now it's down. Ho hum.
- diimdeep 11mo ago80% of web sites I visited in last 15 minutes are not available anymore, LOL
- Andugal 11mo agoOK, it seems to be working again.
- johnstonnorth 11mo agohttps://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7 https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7
- palmeida 11mo agoJust now it was acknowledge in the status page.
- dazc 11mo agoChecks Cloudflare Status - yeah, everything's hunky dory bro.
- jesper111 11mo ago[dead]
- mittermayr 11mo agoI started restarting my own servers thinking something went awry again, that's how much I usually trust them not to be down. Interesting.
- mrintegrity 11mo agoNow is as good a time as ever to look at moving our eggs into some other baskets
- ilaksh 11mo agoTelnyx seems to be down for me. Actually I lied, I think it is working. at least call connected.
- spapas82 11mo agoCloudflare seems to have degrated performance. Half the requests for my site throw cloudflare 500x errors, the other half work fine. However the https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ does not really mention anything relevant. What's the point of having a status page if it lies ? Update Ah I just checked the status and now I get a big red warning (however the problem existed for like 15 minutes before 11:48 UTC): > Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC
- maushu 11mo ago> What's the point of having a status page if it lies ? Status pages are basically marketing crap right now. The same thing happened with Azure where it took at least 45 minutes to show any change. They can't be trusted.
- bilekas 11mo ago>However the https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ does not really mention anything relevant. What's the point of having a status page if it lies ? What is the lie ? > Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflare has a specific service names "Network" and it's having issues..
- spapas82 11mo agoPlease read my comment again including the update: For 15 minute cloudflare wasn't working and the status page did not mentioned anything. Yes, right now the status page mentions the serious network problem but for some time our pages were not working and we didn't know what was happening. So for ~ 15 minutes the status page lied. The whole point of a status page is to not lie, i.e to be updated automatically when there are problem and not by a person that needs to get clearance on what and how to write.
- mrsuprawsm 11mo agoSeems like ChatGPT and Claude are also affected. (CLI Codex still seems to work). RIP to the engineers fixing this without any AI help.
- fullstackchris 11mo agoThey better not be using AI to fix this... especially if AI is what caused it! (looking at you, AWS)
- re5i5tor 11mo agoFor me right now, Claude.ai is down, but Claude Code (terminal, extension) seems to be up and happy. Suggests that API is probably up.
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- lucabrekkav 11mo agoit comes back up now
- tedmundy 11mo agoI think everyone is in the same boat with thinking they took something offline :^) Concerning though how much the web relies on one (great) service.
- pqdbr 11mo agoI had just deployed. Started reverting commits like crazy.
- techguy1954 11mo agoIt would appear if you use a VPN in Europe you can still access Cloudflare sites, I have just tried, for me the Netherlands, Germany, and France work, but the UK and USA don't. EDIT: It would appear it is still unreliable in these countries, it just stopped working in France for me.
- r721 11mo ago>Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues >Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. >Posted 4 minutes ago https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7 https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7
- robotfelix 11mo agoThings are back up (a second time) for me. It doesn’t sound like they are confident the problem is fully fixed yet though Edit: and down again a third time!
- robotfelix 11mo ago> Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues > Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Things are back up (a second time) for me. Cloudflare have updated their status page now to reflect the problems now. It doesn’t sound like they are confident the problem is fully fixed yet. Edit: and down again a third time!
- grrowl 11mo agoit's back again!
- TavsiE9s 11mo agoInvestigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC Yeah, those multiple customers is like 70% of the internet.
- keshavmunjal 11mo agoCloudflare is still down
- rehanahmed 11mo agoFunny how I couldn't even check on Downdetector.com - because it takes me to a Cloudfare-run captcha, which is now stuck on loading. The internet is officially down.
- keshavmunjal 11mo agocloudfare down in india
- mrintegrity 11mo agoIt would have been ironic had this https://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/salesguy.html https://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/salesguy.html been hosted behind cloudflare.
- chinathrow 11mo agoIt's back up.
- brushfoot 11mo agoI've been considering Cloudflare for caching, DDoS protection and WAF, but I don't like furthering the centralization of the Web. And my host (Vultr) has had fantastic uptime over the 10 years I've been on them. How are others doing this? How is Hacker News hosted/protected?
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- NicoJuicy 11mo agoWas back up for a moment ( within 5 minutes of being down), currently down again
- chistev 11mo agoYea, had trouble accessing Upwork
- ea016 11mo agoWe're on the enterprise plan, so far we're seeing Dashboard degradation and Turnstile (their captcha service) down. But all proxying/CDN and other services seem to work well.
- jl1337 11mo ago[dead]
- Semaphor 11mo agoWe finally switched to CF a few weeks ago (for bot protection, abusive traffic started getting insane this year), finally we can join in on one of the global outage parties (no cloud usage otherwise, so still more uptime than most).
- sutton12345 11mo agocloudfare is down officially
- aap_ 11mo agoCrazy to think that it's apparently acceptable to centralize the web like that.
- rulehard 11mo agowhy does no one use google cloud? literally never has any issues lol
- avadhesh18 11mo agobecause no one uses it
- benedictboppler 11mo agoExpensive, hard to use, a million dashboards
- eruci 11mo agoSearching for Cloudflare alternatives...
- CREAMY_BANANA 11mo agoI can't access my fav porn sites, cloudflare Singapore host is down. Oh man!
- oxy1tumn 11mo agoTook down both Twitter and Rateyourmusic. This is a targetted attack against me specifically and nobody else
- anuraagvaidya 11mo agoI got an email saying that my OpenAI auto-renewal failed, my credits have run out. I go to OpenAI to reauthorize the card, and I can't login because OpenAI uses Cloudflare for "verifying you are a human" that goes in infinite loop. Great.
- Piko 11mo agooh no, the vibes won't code themselves /s
- anuraagvaidya 11mo agoOr even worse, people with apps in production with credits running out
- rkwasny 11mo agodowndetector.com is down because it uses cloudflare challenge....
- sutton12345 11mo agodo any of users facing cloudfare outage ???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- vinishbhaskar 11mo agoTried checking Cloudflare’s status on Downdetector, but Downdetector was also behind Cloudflare. Internet checkmate.
- josephb 11mo agoIt’s not just websites :-/ Things like Apple private relay (which way too many people seem to have it enabled) are tunnelled via Cloudflare, maybe using warp?
- StefanThorpe 11mo agoWhats peoples bets on the root cause of this...?
- redrove 11mo agoTheir Oregon controlplane somehow? Either a misconfiguration of some sort (BGP??) or a power outage like they had before.
- outroll 11mo agoYep, got around 100 SMSs from our uptime monitoring service that our Cloudflare sites are down. Nothing much we can do but wait.
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- vldszn 11mo agox.com is down
- lyfeesgood 11mo agosingapore down
- aws_eu1 11mo agoERROR [11:57:30 UTC]: EC2 Launch Failure. Reason: [Security Breach Remediation] Control Plane Metadata Service (IMDS) temporarily offline. System state reports: Dependency integrity check failed (Exit Code 0x80070002). Cannot retrieve authorized kernel image or block device mapping. Termination signal initiated for compromised worker nodes.
- flamixin 11mo agoThis sounds huge.
- rulehard 11mo agopretty much just my twitter usage as of now. my sites dont use cloudflare
- ilkkao 11mo agoI can't even load the dashboard to change to "DNS only". Nothing to do?
- mak8 11mo agosupabase is down too
- yard2010 11mo agoYes. I get 500 on my website.
- bilekas 11mo agoWell it was bound to happen eventually, the "Down Roulette" has decided it should be Cloudflare this week!
- ask2sk 11mo agoYes, all sites are down. Getting a 500 error from India. Update: Looks like the issue has been resolved now. All sites are operational now.
- aws_eu1 11mo agoCONTROL PLANE FAULT: CRITICAL SECURITY OVERRIDE enforced across us-east-1 and eu-west-2. ERROR CODE: STS.SecurityAuditLockout (403 Forbidden).
- chinathrow 11mo agoContext?
- techguy1954 11mo agoChatGPT and Perplexity AI are down, I was just about to try and use ChatGPT.
- vednig 11mo agoall the captcha's are also not working
- jamesnorden 11mo agoAlmost like centralizing everything on a single service has consequences.
- lpcvoid 11mo agoCan we at some point acknowledge that constant cloud disruptions are too costly, and can we then finally move all of our hosting back on-prem?
- donglong 11mo agocan you define "constant"
- lpcvoid 11mo agoWell, between AWS US EAST 1 killing half the internet, and this incident, not even a month passed. Meanwhile, my physical servers don't care and happily serve many people at a cheaper cost than any cloud offer.
- alt227 11mo agoWe had an Azure outage in between those 2 as well.
- chistev 11mo agoHow do you back up?
- lpcvoid 11mo agoWe have a few colocated servers offsite, each in a different region, each with a zpool of mirrored spinning rust. We use rsync across those at different times.
- donglong 11mo agonever build on us-east-1, everyone knows that ;)
- vlovich123 11mo agoYou realize these are two different companies right? If you’re saying “I’m an AWS customer with cloudflare in front” I think you’ve failed to realize that two 99.9% available services in series have a combined availability of ~99.8% - that’s just math. Your physical servers should have similar issues if you put a CDN in front unless the physical server is able to achieve a 100% uptime (100% * 3 9s = 3 9s). Or you don’t have a CDN but can be trivially knocked offline by the tiniest botnet (or even hitting hacker news front page)
- celltalk 11mo agoI am glad my personal site is not affected, what would I do without all those incoming traffic.
- k4rnaj1k 11mo ago[dead]
- ashsk0110 11mo agoWorld infrastructure is taking a hit. First us-east and now this.
- thoughtogram 11mo agoCant websites have an auto backup/redirect in case cloudflare or AWS go down?
- enceeee 11mo agoPoland down
- mberger 11mo agoIs it DNS? I went to check the isitdns.com but got a cloudflare error
- ablation 11mo agoIt's knocked out Turnstile too, which means I can't even log in to my Cloudflare dash to bypass my site's proxying via Cloudflare.
- bamboozled 11mo agoThis one is huge.
- drchiu 11mo agoJust when the eastern cities are waking up too.
- ReedorReed 11mo agoThere is an election in Denmark today, I wonder if this will affect that. The governments website is not accessible at the moment because it uses Cloudflare.
- baaron 11mo agoMy tinfoil hat has me wondering if it's just coincidence.
- therealfc 11mo ago[dead]
- aws_eu1 11mo agoERROR [12:00:21 UTC]: CF_EDGE_ROUTING_FAILURE. Reason: Origin-Shield connectivity loss detected within multi-region fabric. BGP path withdrawal initiated for critical LCP clusters (LCP-LON, LCP-FRA). Status code 521/522 flood reported globally. Geo-location failover services degraded. DNS resolution timeout on 1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1. Traffic flow re-routing pending verification of internal control plane integrity.
- dontdoxxme 11mo agoDid you ask an LLM to try to guess the error message?
- jamesnorden 11mo agoAnd no lesson about single point of failure and centralization was learned that day.
- carlosjobim 11mo agoWhere is the single point of failure? You can point to different name servers and swiftly remove Cloudflare from your setup.
- JustSkyfall 11mo agoNot if you’re using Workers/Pages!
- blackjackfoe 11mo agoIf your site is only hosted on one server and it catches fire, you can swiftly reinstall on a new server and change the IP your domain is pointing to, too... Still a single point of failure.
- carlosjobim 11mo agoYes, everything in the world is a single point of failure and has always been, if we look at things that way. But if it can be remedied quickly, then it's not a huge concern.
- cryptonym 11mo agoOnly true if your audience doesn't require Edge distribution, also if your Origin can handle the increased load and security issues, also if you don't use any advanced features (routing, edge compute...).
- carlosjobim 11mo agoAren't there other companies offering edge distribution?
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- ashed96 11mo agoSuddenly feeling better about our 99.9% uptime SLA. When even Cloudflare goes down, nobody can blame the little guys.
- udev4096 11mo agoWould be funny if it was a record breaking ddos on cloudflare
- KabuTheSilicon 11mo agoThe reason why you laugh
- pstation 11mo agoCloudflare's dashboard is currently down as well. My domain is registered with cloudflare so I'm 100% helpless to get things back online. I can't edit DNS records to bypass cloudflare and I can't change nameservers either.
- astonfred 11mo agoWe are all impacted...
- lofaszvanitt 11mo agoSeemingly nobody cares about being in two different availability zones. Or is this a deeper problem?
- whd5015 11mo agojust scheduled maintenance in Tahiti guys, nothing to see here
- rikafurude21 11mo agocould be related? Tahiti is a small island in the south pacific, seems rather suspicious
- demontime 11mo agoTwitter too is down, almost half the internet
- MaximilianEmel 11mo agoWhen's the last time Cloudflare had such an outage?
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- Metacelsus 11mo agoYeah I just got a 500 error on medRxiv
- akashvekariya 11mo agoWe are doomed! Is it another vibe-coding disaster?
- robertwt7 11mo agothis should affect a lot sites? I'm trying to access tailwindcss and I can't as well!
- chistev 11mo agoNot my site though https://www.rxjourney.net/ https://www.rxjourney.net/
- csomar 11mo agoI am using cloudflare as back-end for my site (workers) but have disabled all their other offerings. I was affected for a short while but seems to be less affected than other people.
- biinjo 11mo agoLol. I mean I love Tailwind but it seems like the least trivial site/service to be down right now haha.
- kmarc 11mo agoYesterday I decided to finally write my makefiles to "mirror" (make available offline) the docs of the libraries I'm using. doc2dash for sphinx-enabled projects, and then using dash / zeal. Then I was like... "when did I last time fly for 10+ hours and wanted to do programming, etc, so that I need offline docs?" So I gave up. Today I can't browse the libs' docs quickly, so I'm resuming the work on my local mirroring :-)
- ImScope052300 11mo agoBro what's up with X???
- SallysField 11mo agoBro no way bro what's going on bro? BRO?! Bro this is crazy bro like one of your cartoons that you jerk it to every day bro
- akashvekariya 11mo agoWe're doomed. Is this another vibe-coding disaster?
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- wolfgx 11mo agoI was using Cloudflare WARP; had to turn it off to access most of the websites i visit daily.
- lambdaba 11mo agoit's funny I first noticed this visiting a random blog, then went on X and got the same error... is Cloudflare the Internet now?
- devilx 11mo ago[dead]
- fullstackchris 11mo agoSupabase is down bad too... need to work on my project!
- fullstackchris 11mo agoHaha they updated their status page: "Identified - A global upstream provider is currently experiencing an outage which is impacting platform-level and project-level services" A global upstream provider :)
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- farhadhf 11mo agoPretty much everything is down (checking from the Netherlands). The Cloudflare dashboard itself is experiencing an outage as well. Not-so-funny thing is that the Betterstack dashboard is down but our status page hosted by Betterstack is up, and we can't access the dashboard to create an incident and let our customers know what's going on. Edit: wording.
- ablation 11mo agoThis is a big one.
- csomar 11mo agoSeems like workers are less affected and maybe betterstack has decided to bypass cloudflare "stuff" for the status pages? (maybe to cut down costs). My site is still up though some GitHub runners did show it failed at certain points.
- tyingq 11mo agoI have a workers + kv app that seems fine right now.
- csomar 11mo agoPretty sure they went down for a while because I have 4xx errors they returned but apparently it was short-lived. I wonder if their workers infra. failed for a moment and that let to a total collapse of all of their products?
- biinjo 11mo agoSame here. We’re using OhDear. The status page is available but I can’t post an incident because their service is also behind Cloudflare.
- Mojah 11mo agoCo-founder here, we'll be working on better ways to handle this over the coming days. Update: our app is available again without Cloudflare, you'll be able to post updates to status pages smoothly again.
- nnyms1 11mo agoI got several emails from some uptime monitors I setup due to failing checks on my website and funnily enough I cannot log into any of them. BetterStack, InStatus and HetrixTools seemingly all use Cloudflare on their dashboards, which means I can't login but I keep getting "your website/API is down" emails. Update: I also can't login to UptimeRobot and Pulsetic. Now, I am getting seriously concerned about the sheer degree of centralization we have for CDNs/login turnstiles on Cloudflare.
- MrKh4n 11mo agoWhat is happening to cloudflare, anybody knows? Everything is down!
- woodpeng 11mo ago[dead]
- bobbywalnuts 11mo agoDown in Australia and New Zealand
- mak8 11mo agoit took X , supabase down as well.
- kgwxd 11mo agoMy Window System seems to be working fine.
- taneq 11mo agoAw man, how dare this affect me personally? :P (Tried to get to openstreetmap.org which is behind cloudflare.)
- baccatore 11mo agoTokyo too
- elborbentley 11mo agoDown... "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed." On every Cloudflare hosted website that I try. This timing SUCKS.......... please resolve fast! <3
- binanabread 11mo agoaaa the only night im free to watch nana and cloudfare sabotages me T_T
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- chistev 11mo agoHow come HN is never down with all these outages?
- meeb 11mo agoBecause HN doesn't use Cloudflare.
- chistev 11mo agoAlso doesn't use AWS or Azure because it didn't go down with them either.
- us0r 11mo agoI thought the same until I started looking: Name Server: NS-225.AWSDNS-28.COM Name Server: NS-1411.AWSDNS-48.ORG Name Server: NS-1914.AWSDNS-47.CO.UK Name Server: NS-556.AWSDNS-05.NET At least for DNS. Data center appears to be Lightedge.
- Bender 11mo agoHN sometimes rarely is pointed to AWS when under attack.
- ardfard 11mo agoDoes HN self-host too?
- ArcHound 11mo agoI'd love to read an article describing the HN setup. Seems that they got a lot of things right - self registration, influx of people during outages and plenty others. Admins, if you see this, please write about your craft!
- Akronymus 11mo agoI am pretty sure @dang wrote about it on here before, but I can't seem to find it.
- togglebutt 11mo ago[dead]
- materikzen 11mo agofacing cloudflare downtime
- gbil 11mo agoThe irony is that if you follow the relevant link [1]in the error page , you get this > If the problem isn’t resolved in the next few minutes, it’s most likely an issue with the web server you were trying to reach. [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/5xx-error-landing/?utm_source=errorcode_500&utm_campaign=www.lifo.gr https://www.cloudflare.com/5xx-error-landing/?utm_source=err...
- bigooman_human 11mo ago[dead]
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- jpartridge1 11mo agousing a cloudflare tunnel for local dev work, completely down
- gbajson 11mo agoPoland. Most of the popular sites are down. Including community forum on Cloudflare.
- djsjajah 11mo agoI went to check how many services are being impacted on down detector, but it was down.
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- stachoo 11mo agoWarsaw, Los Angeles and Newark down
- greatgib 11mo agoWhat is funny us that on their global status list for services, everything looks green except "network" that is "offline".
- virajk_31 11mo agoI was shouting at network guy/colleague, how come challenges.cloudflare.com got blocked!! damn, I must apologise to him.
- yipbub 11mo agoProbably better not to shout in the first place.
- virajk_31 11mo agoIt was friendly fire, nothing serious. haha
- weird-eye-issue 11mo ago> friendly fire Yeah I don't think you are using this phrase correctly
- bigooman_human 11mo ago[dead]
- KabuTheSilicon 11mo agoakxeder.eth.ac is working
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- jpartridge1 11mo agoironically downdetector.com is down because they use cloudflare for challenges
- rvz 11mo agoProbably a good time to contact the CEO of Cloudflare. Looking forward to the post-mortem.
- punk_hazard 11mo agoIt also took chatgpt and claude , trying to access from pk
- dodyg 11mo agochatgpt.com is not working because they are relying on cloudflare for challenges
- conradfr 11mo agoI thought I would be clever by switching domain endpoints from proxied to dns but Cloudflare admin page is also not working correctly ;) edit: it's up! edit: it's down!
- buybackoff 11mo agoThe main bike rental Velib in Paris has the app not working, but the bikes can be taken with NFC. However, my station, which is always full at this time, is now empty, with only 2 bad bikes. It maybe related. Yet, push notifications are working. I'm going to take the metro now and thinking how long do we have until the entire transit network goes down because of a similar incident.
- terezatizkova 11mo agoEurope down
- varshneydevansh 11mo agoI was about to cream watching my fav video on X and it is down
- donglong 11mo agogenuinely makes me sad for the people there. this must be a living nightmare right now.
- vntok 11mo agoWhy? If any company has enough technical people, resources & processes in place it must be them, no?
- bongocot 11mo agoDown in Taiwan
- ehsamm 11mo agoYESS
- password999 11mo ago500 from Thailand
- finlayy 11mo agoIronic, cloudflare taking downdetector with it
- ehsamm 11mo agoyess ddos
- password999 11mo ago500 from thailand
- miiniiiie 11mo agoFeels like 25% of the Internet is down just because of fuckin' cloudflare. I'm leaving the redaction because I couldn't work atm... Time for a beer , greetings from germany!
- Blivpedia 11mo agoI thought it was problem with my network lol XD
- abcd43210 11mo ago[dead]
- dmezzetti 11mo agoThis one is bigger than the AWS East outage...
- finlayy 11mo agoIronic, Cloudflare taking DownDetector with it
- Odablock 11mo agoForced to play Runescape now
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- ehsamm 11mo agoI learned from reliable sources about a denial-of-service attack; everything went down.
- ahmadrifai123 11mo agoIndonesia down also
- Inheritor 11mo ago[dead]
- GooniestGoon 11mo agoBruh I was watching porn on Twitter, I thought the FBI got my ahh.
- benedictboppler 11mo agousername fits...
- SallysField 11mo agoWho the fuck talks like this
- mak8 11mo agoIt took supabase and X down for me
- KabuTheSilicon 11mo agoakxeder.eth.ac is not down
- stripedHorse747 11mo ago[dead]
- acomjean 11mo agoThe non profit I volunteer at is unreachable. It gives a cloudflare error page which is sort of helpful. It tells me the the site is ok but cloudflare has an 500. It’s been great, but I always wonder when a company starts doing more than it’s initially calling. There have been a ton of large attacks, tons of bot scrappers so it’s the Wild West.
- jpartridge1 11mo agoyes they're spreading themselves very thin with lots of new releases/products - but they will lose a lot of customers if their reliability comes into question
- MTGR 11mo agoSuch a shame though. I wonder how long it's going to take before they bring it back up
- neya 11mo agoThe biggest learning for me from this incident - NEVER make your DNS provider and CDN provider the same vendor. Now, I can't login into the dashboard, even to switch the DNS. Sigh.
- rollulus 11mo agoClassic. I see issues. Vendor’s status page is all green. Go to HN to find the confirmation. Applies to AWS, GH, everyone. Edit: beautiful, this decentralised design of the internet.
- markild 11mo agoI get the feeling that all "serious" businesses have manual processes for publicly facing status pages, for political reasons. I don't like it.
- bnjm 11mo agoSLA breaches have consequences, no big conspiracy there
- markild 11mo agoNot at all saying it's a conspiracy, I just think it's a lack of transparency. I get why, but it would give me more confidence if they would tell me about everything.
- skywhopper 11mo agoAt some level, the status updates have to be manual. Any automation you try to build on top is inevitably going to break in a crisis situation.
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- Bro1309 11mo agoAll Cloudflare websites are down!!!! When will it get fixed? I dont have time.!!
- miiniiiie 11mo agoCouldn't work. Fuckin' cloudflare . Feels like 25% of the Internet is down. Im going home. Time for a beer . Greetings from germany
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- saubeidl 11mo agoCloud in general was a mistake. We took a system explicitly designed for decentralization and resilience and centralized it and created a few neat points of failure to take the whole damn thing down.
- is_true 11mo agoIt took me a while to understand it, but the beauty of it is that when it fails, lot of things fail. Almost no one gets mad if your site and half the internet were down.
- saubeidl 11mo agoSure, but that is also a giant weakness. Say in a future conflict with Russia or China, or hell, even North Korea. They'd only have to take down a few services to completely cripple the West - the exact case ARPANET was designed to prevent.
- is_true 11mo agoYep. You are right. Aren't those services regulated to avoid that from happening?
- mosselman 11mo agoCloudflare provides some nice services that have nothing to do with cloud or not. You can self-host private tunnels, application firewalls, traffic filtering, etc, or you can focus on building your application and managing your servers. I am a self-host enthousiast. So I use Hetzner, Kamal and other tools for self-managing our servers, but we still have Cloudflare in front of them because we didn't want to handle the parts I mentioned (yet, we might sometime). Calling it a mistake is a very narrow look at it. Just because it goes down every now and then, it isn't a mistake. Going for cloud or not has its trade-offs and I agree that paying 200 dollars a month for a 1GB Heroku Redis instance is complete madness when you can get a 4GB VPS on Hetzner for 3,8 a month. Then again, some people are willing to make that trade-off for not having to manage the servers. Cloud servers have taught me so much about working with servers because they are so easy and cheap to spin up, experiment with and then get rid of again. If I had had to buy racks and host them each time I wanted to try something, I would've never done it.
- firecall 11mo ago10.30pm here in Australia... and my alarms are going off my and support line is ringing... I cant even login to my CF dashboard to disable the CDN! Edit: It's back. Hopefully it will stay up! Edit 2: 1 Hour Later. Narrator: It didn't stay up :/
- jpdus 11mo agogermany as well. Claude down too
- Culonavirus 11mo agoX, Chatgpt, all kinds of sites and services around the eu, it's a massive outage
- orangeyjuicey 11mo agoSo do we have a guarantee that posts are not made by AI for a few minutes?
- tzpbingo 11mo ago20% of websites worldwide are down.
- ramon156 11mo agosource? would love to see
- ed_mercer 11mo agoI got an invoice from them right before the outage. Hopefully when they restore everything, they'll have forgotten about it!
- MTGR 11mo agoIt's back up, sites are working. Still wonder how long it's going to last. IF there's another blackout.
- thearnabsarkar 11mo agoDid something happen to the Cloudflare lava lamps ?
- coolgang 11mo agoeven in india cloud fare has a outage
- Brajeshwar 11mo agoAh! Well, all of my websites are down! I’m going to take screenshots and have it as part of my Time Capsule Album, “Once upon a Time, my websites used to go down.”
- KabuTheSilicon 11mo agoOnce upon a time, the end of the world happened
- jameslk 11mo agoCloudflare's own status page is not responding. I guess it's down too?
- erikscholz 11mo ago[dead]
- udev4096 11mo agoA good reminder for advancing decentralization and p2p networks!
- cipixul 11mo agoBucharest Cloudflare down too
- coolgang 11mo agoeven in India there is cloudfare's outage
- StefanThorpe 11mo agoStrange thing is this is in multiple CD regions all using bot & WAF are down, just got a colueuge to check our site and both London & Singapour cloudflare servers are out... And I cant even login to the cloudflare dash to re-route critical traffic . Likely this is accidental, but one day there will be something malicous that will have big impacts with how centralised the internet now is.
- erikscholz 11mo ago[dead]
- clownelon 11mo agoWho is laughing now Elon ?
- haik90 11mo agoIt is a relief that they hosted the status page on someone else's infrastructure.
- AL1033 11mo agoyes absolutly yes, i have tried severak region and all of then receive 500 error
- diginova 11mo agohttps://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ even status page is giving 504 Gateway Timeout ERROR The request could not be satisfied. now in India
- arminsergiony 11mo ago[dead]
- 3xstphvs 11mo agoAustralia here. plenty down rn
- coolgang 11mo agoLETS GO ITS BACK ONN
- coolgang 11mo agoguys hype up its backkk
- cf_py 11mo agoDidn't have my site on cloudflare bc it would be faster for chinese users (its main demographic) so i THOUGHT i was fine for a second until i remembered the data storage api is behind cloudflare
- cipixul 11mo agoclaude.ai down too... lots of programmers are gonna have to pretend they code in another way...
- wesrobin 11mo agoIt's working fine for me
- cipixul 11mo agoYep, seems to work cause my nearby colleague started copy/pasting massive chunks of code again. I guess claude is more important than your average site :)
- re5i5tor 11mo agoFor me right now, Claude.ai is down, but Claude Code (terminal, extension) seems to be up and happy. Suggests that API is probably up.
- re5i5tor 11mo agoIronically, Claude Desktop--which could be up if it simply used the API instead of doing the Electron webapp wrapper thing--is down.
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 11mo agoEasy: "the site is done, it is fantastic, but cloudflare is down so you cant see it"
- sharathnryn 11mo agothe sheer number of websites this is taken down!
- testingofindia 11mo agoeven popular apps like x.com, chatgpt.com are down.
- tebbers 11mo agoMy uptime monitor OnlineOrNot is also down...
- rozenmd 11mo agoOnlineOrNot's fallen back to AWS for monitoring, so you should still be getting alerts. The dashboard's API server runs on Cloudflare and is currently blocking all logins, will fix.
- testingofindia 11mo agoeven the famous applications like Chatgpt, x.com are down
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- forthaven 11mo agoI'm betting on DNS fail
- Inheritor 11mo agoWell that was quick. I saw a status saying server maintenance. And then it changed to “we’re looking into this” must’ve made an oopsie I suppose
- ChewbyP 11mo agoJust happy I wasnt IP banned lol
- forthaven 11mo agoI'm betting on another DNS failure
- Bro1309 11mo agoIts back!
- bazinga1020 11mo agoasd
- raxxorraxor 11mo agoSeems to work again. 40min downtime for many services it seems.
- codeaholicguy 11mo agoYes, it impacted our services https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
- Dukeares 11mo agoSingapore Cloudeflare Server is down.
- tristanperry 11mo agoChatGPT and Claude are down as a result, too. Y'know, along with most other SAAS services.
- miiniiiie 11mo agoELON! GO AND KICK THOSE CLOUDFLARE ASSES! or search a new job for yourself. Maybe digging to the earth core. Why? Idk. Because then you can say: I did it, or so.
- crazyooly 11mo agoWe really do have two surprise holidays every year: AWS Day and Cloudflare Day. Happy outages, everyone.
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- 3xstphvs 11mo agoit works, then stops, then works
- MrPasancalla 11mo agoJust when I was assigned a task yesterday but decided to do it today early morning.
- sansiro9 11mo agoOh, look! Cloudflare is down. Let's check down detector to make sure it's not just me > Downdetector is using Cloudflare captcha. Yep, it's down.
- djiexpert 11mo agoMy site https://mediamistrz.pl/ https://mediamistrz.pl/ not working
- Tixx7 11mo agosome sites are already up again, including the cf dash and downdetector, both ironically down a few minutes ago
- Woods369 11mo agosyntax error: unexpected semicolon
- fungungun 11mo agoits back !
- djiexpert 11mo ago[dead]
- adrianhacar 11mo agoThe sites I host on Cloudflare are all down. Also, even ChatGPT was down for a while, showing the error: "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed."
- dsco 11mo agoThis is still the case for me
- pelagicAustral 11mo agoThings seem to be coming back up... been almost 45 minutes, since my first alert came at 0836
- djiexpert 11mo ago[dead]
- vednig 11mo agohacked.stream was down too
- ChubbyChief 11mo agoDown is Missouri
- mpaepper 11mo agoSeems like the merging with Replit didn't work so well :p
- philipwhiuk 11mo agoLooks like the status page is suffering too because it can't load jQuery: (index):64 Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined at (index):64:3
- iamawacko 11mo agoWow, so much is down. Nothing Cloudflare protected is loading for me in Indiana, and the Cloudflare dashboard is broken as well. I hope it gets resolved in the next hour or two, or it could be a serious problem for me.
- vxworkss 11mo agoGlad to see things are actually working here! Also, my website (halomate.ai) is using CF too, and surprisingly, it's working fine as well
- duncans 11mo agoYou spoke too soon!
- nhatcher 11mo agoOff topic, but the 500 page from prusa3d is quite good: https://www.prusa3d.com/ https://www.prusa3d.com/ https://imgur.com/a/OW5KL8r https://imgur.com/a/OW5KL8r
- mig4ng 11mo agoCloudflare Dashboard/Clicky clicky UI is down. I really appreciate that their API is still working. Small change in our Terraform configuration and now I can go lunch in peace knowing our clients at skeeled can keep working if wanted: resource "cloudflare_dns_record" - proxied = true + proxied = false
- NicoJuicy 11mo agoSeems to be back up
- elcapitan 11mo agoBlack HN ribbon for the Internet
- tristanperry 11mo agoI assume you're joking, but as an FYI, Rebecca Heineman died: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/legendary-game-designer-programmer-space-invaders-champion-and-lgbtq-trailblazer-rebecca-heineman-has-died/ https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/legendary-game-desig...
- theideaofcoffee 11mo agoLove that for them. Congrats on building such a re-centralized web!
- rvz 11mo agoCloudflare is now a systemic risk for a state-sponsored attacker to bring down the entire web.
- ntoskrnl_exe 11mo agoIt’s been 45 minutes and I’m already looking forward to the day Kevin Fang makes a video about this
- xprice 11mo agoat least https://xprice.ro https://xprice.ro is up, dont know how and why cuz we use cloudflare and we're hosting in germany/hetzner
- namannarula 11mo agodown for india :/
- xprice 11mo agointeresting, working in Romania. So it's somehow related to they geo-balancing infrastructure.
- tgv 11mo agoSeems to be over.
- ravikinhajaat 11mo agoanyone have reference for flutter opening +917494920753
- mittermayr 11mo agoEven Cloudflare Status is now down, oh boy :) https://postimg.cc/LJVKYmks https://postimg.cc/LJVKYmks
- carter-0 11mo agoEven your postimg.cc link is down for me.. (at least their CSS is) https://ibb.co/QF6X0pX9 https://ibb.co/QF6X0pX9
- mittermayr 11mo agoamazing
- hirako2000 11mo agoPostimg's CDN is down
- HocusLocus 11mo agocatbox.moe is up https://files.catbox.moe/9r3zgr.png https://files.catbox.moe/9r3zgr.png
- wazoox 11mo agoI discovered the problem by trying to access https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ ironically :)
- martiuk 11mo agoAPI still seems to work if you already have a script to hand to unproxy everything.
- kumarski 11mo agoI'm going to buy more.
- uni_baconcat 11mo agoI’m glad I have kindle in my bag today. Websites down but not much we can do.
- chid 11mo agoTook quite a while for it to show up oddly.
- joemonsters 11mo agoNow I can switch everything off and go home. We are not using CF at our site, but CF error it is a good reason to have a day off
- dheatov 11mo agoSeems like coudflare activated the maximum llm-scraper-bot-protection for everyone.
- digid8a 11mo agojust yesterday cloudflare announced it was acquiring replicate (ai to "help" it's workers) i believe
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 11mo agoYou Browser Working San Jose Cloudflare Error mysite.com Host Working Lol! Like a solar eclipse!
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- bpavuk 11mo agoUkraine. Sporadic outages as well. Error pages blame Cloudflare Warsaw servers.
- hamish-b 11mo agoWhat a wild ride, the traffic to my site is more akin to a rollercoaster. Got better for a few mins and then fell back apart.
- kosolam 11mo agoStill ongoing. Some requests going through. Some get the cf error page.
- Fiveplus 11mo agoCloudflare is the real backbone of the internet in 2025. It should be a globalized property like ICANN or something
- aeve890 11mo agoHow would that prevent outages? Honest question
- ahmedhossamdev 11mo agolol
- dheatov 11mo agoReminder that this is not the web we want.
- yaratixal 11mo agoIt’s down worldwide practically, in the US,UK,NZ,AU
- ArvindRSingh 11mo agoEven IN.
- vednig 11mo agohttps://hacked.stream/ https://hacked.stream/
- seydor 11mo agoMore proof that central planning doesn't work
- sidcool 11mo agoEven Twitter is down. Most of my customers are shouting at the top of their head!
- sidcool 11mo agoThe top black bar is appropriate /s
- Fiveplus 11mo agoEven twitter is gone. Where will I post memes mocking cloudflare?
- gethly 11mo agoHa ha ha hahahahahaaaa hahahahahaaaahahaha, fuck 'em.
- Dilettante_ 11mo agoOur support portal provider is currently experiencing issues Are they using Cloudflare perchance? (scnr)
- raghava 11mo agoMost down-detectors are down due to their dependency on CF. Cloudflare Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad edge-nodes also unable to serve content. x.com down. Few quick-commerce apps are acting up at times.
- import 11mo agoFunny that their status page shows almost all locations “Operational” but they’re not. Are they updating the page manually and keep it green?
- kuylar 11mo agoI assume the locations are operating fine, since you can see the error pages. The culprit here is probably the Network, which at the time of writing, shows up as offline
- lilppdavidson 11mo agoI’m assuming hard rock (bet) is run by cloudflare also
- azholder 11mo agowhat's a good alternative for their WAF, that isn't enterprise expensive?
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 11mo agoIs it DNS or BGP?
- meepmorp 11mo agoWhy settle for just one?
- hypeatei 11mo agoWhy do people use the reverse proxy functionality of Cloudflare? I've worked at small to medium sized businesses that never had any of this while running public facing websites and they were/are just fine. Same goes for my personal projects: I've never been worried about being targeted by a botnet so much that I introduce a single point of failure like this.
- xyzzy9563 11mo agoIt gives really good caching functionality so you can have large amounts of traffic and your site can easily handle it. Plus they don't charge for egress traffic.
- arccy 11mo agopeople think that running nodejs servers are a good idea, and those fall over if there's ever so much as a stiff breeze, so they put cloudflare in front and call it a day.
- lofaszvanitt 11mo agoIt's chic. Young bois or adult pepl with boi like mentality. What, they have Cloudflare and we don't? We also must have cloudflare. Don't ask why. Now that you have it, you are at least level 15 and not a peasant. Same applies to every braindead framework on the web. The gadget mind of the bois is the cause for all this.
- thoroughburro 11mo agoI’m surprised your projects aren’t plagued by massive waves of scraping traffic like the rest of us. Count yourself lucky, not superior.
- q3k 11mo agoWhat exactly are you serving that bot traffic affects your quality of service? I've seen an RPi serve a few dozen QPS of dynamic content without issue... The only service I've had actually get successfully taken down by benign bots is a Gitea-style git forges (which was 'fixed' by deploying Anubis in front of it).
- roversx 11mo agoglad to see hacker news is still working.
- digid8a 11mo agojust yesterday cloudflare announced it was acquiring replicate (ai platform) "the Workers Platform mission: Our goal all along has been to enable developers to build full-stack applications without having to burden themselves with infrastructure" according to cloudflare's blog, are we cooked?
- lilppdavidson 11mo agoI’m assuming Hard Rock (Bet) is run by Cloudflare too
- azholder 11mo agoLots of valid concern about us all using CF, but is their an alternative to their WAF that isn't enterprise expensive?
- PhilippGille 11mo agoDepends on your needs, but for example there's Bunny Shield: https://bunny.net/shield/ https://bunny.net/shield/
- azholder 11mo agoThanks for the pointer. They'd still wind up being a couple thousand dollars more annually than what we pay CF now. Frustrating, because I know I'll get asked today if we have an alternative to using CF, and I don't have a good answer.
- ovx 11mo agoYep, bunny.net is great, we also use it. And look at https://altcha.org https://altcha.org as a Turnstile replacement
- Fiveplus 11mo agoFor fun, I asked google what's an alternative to Cloudflare. It says, "A complete list of Cloudflare alternatives depends on which specific service (CDN, security, Zero Trust, edge computing, etc.) you are replacing, as no single competitor offers the exact same all-in-one suite"
- chr15m 11mo agoImagine using an all-in-one suite.
- ArvindRSingh 11mo agoUsing Cloudflare is a tradeoff between facing DDoS and other attacks, and the downtime of Cloudflare.
- Fiveplus 11mo agoI would love to be a bee on the wall in the room where Cloudflare response engineers are working right now.
- littlecranky67 11mo agoAWS, then Azure, now Cloudflare. Welcome to the AI era. Meanwhile my hetzner vServer has been running for three years without issues.
- yeehaw125 11mo agoThe irony of being in the middle of reading how Basecamp got off the cloud and the external link being down with a CF error :D
- EvanAnderson 11mo agoWe've traded DDoS for centralized DoS.
- rikafurude21 11mo agocentralized incompetency causes distributed denial of service
- turnsout 11mo agoThis is reason 1, 2 and 3 on my "Top 3 Reasons to not Put All Eggs in One Basket" list.
- mintflow 11mo agoRecently my multiple VPN server nodes just randomly cannot connect to cloudflare CDN IPs, from different provider VPS, while the Host Linux network does not have the issue; vpp share the same address with Linux and use tc stateless NAT to do the trick. I finally work around this by change the tcp options sent by vpp tcp stack. But the whole thing made me worry there must be something deployed which cause this issue. But I do not think that related with this network issue, it just reminds me the above, I feel there are frequently new articles about cloudflare networking, maybe new method or new deployment sort of related high probability of issues
- rco8786 11mo agoIs it me or has there been a very noticeable uptick in large scale infra-level outages lately? AWS, Cloudflare, etc have all been way under whatever SLA they publish.
- alt227 11mo agoFor me the only silver lining to all these cloud outages is now we know that their published SLA times mean absolutely nothing. The number of 9's used to at least give an indication of intent of reliability, now they are twisted to whatever metric the company wants to represent and dont actually represent guaranteed uptime anywhere.
- bojangleslover 11mo agoSo true. AWS for example gives only platform credits in the event of an outage. Basically no recourse or insurance.
- op00to 11mo agoDoesn’t everyone do that? I’ve never worked for a place that the base policy wasn’t credits. You might have special contract language stating otherwise, but for almost everyone, it’s credits.
- bojangleslover 11mo agoYeah everyone does that. Perhaps it was wrong to single out AWS! None of them should. In any other business, you get your money back.
- op00to 11mo agoI think it's crazy that the SLA just gives you a credit. Even worse! In the contracts I've seen, you have to prove the duration of the outage and sometimes even that there was commercial impact using your own monitoring. What a pain in the ass. It would be easy for me to tell my customers exactly what they need to say to get the maximum, but I've been told not to do that, so I guess it's on them to figure it out.
- agile-gift0262 11mo agoIn the beginning I thought my IP fell on the wrong side of Cloudflare and thought I was being blocked from ~80% of the internet. I was starting to panic
- BatteryMountain 11mo agoWhat have you been looking at citizen?
- BatteryMountain 11mo agoWhole bunch of local South African sites are dead, with cloudflare http 500 errors. Can see Lisbon & Amsterdam crashing out.
- BrouteMinou 11mo agoDo you remember when the Internet was redundant and resilient? It seems 20% of the Internet is down every two weeks now.
- KabuTheSilicon 11mo ago70% of the internet is down
- chakintosh 11mo agoThe whole internet hinges on this one company
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- TheForeseer 11mo agoIsrael must be testing it's doomsday plans again Wonder if the internet will soon be deleted.
- nonsensewatcher 11mo agoSure, blame the Jews. Idiot.
- sxzygz 11mo agoTo be clear, they blamed Israel. Not that it helps make what they said any less idiotic.
- aurise 11mo agoWaking up in East coast USA to all sites being down, yay...
- IsaGuyHere 11mo agoWhat is that bright yellow thing in the sky?
- nottorp 11mo agoThey offer a great service for now, i hear. Unfortunately, that means they can also break 75% of the internet.
- skeptrune 11mo agoFeels like it's been a rough year for huge infra outages man :(.
- joeiq 11mo agoSeriously, bookmarking this site and checking it first next time instead of disabling all my ad blockers.
- leejongyon 11mo agoUnder Attack? SO DO I!
- NicoJuicy 11mo agoThird time's the charm? Seems more stable now.
- karel-3d 11mo agoMore vibe code gets into production. AWS, Azure and Cloudflare all have major issues. Coincidence? I think not.
- I_am_tiberius 11mo agoscaleway.com is down as well. I'm really wondering how a CSP can use cloudflare...
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- brenoRibeiro706 11mo agoIronically, I was trying to access https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ at the time, which also went down due to Cloudflare.
- madjam002 11mo agoCan't even change my nameservers away from Cloudflare as Namecheap use Cloudflare!!
- brightball 11mo agoOh seriously! Thats one I didn’t realize.
- 52-6F-62 11mo agoThe nameservers themselves seem to be working fine if anyone is wondering. I run my applications on OVH behind BunnyCDN and all is well.
- sdoering 11mo agoJust checked INWX from here in Germany. I was able to log in and get to my DNS records. Just if you should be looking for an alternative after all this.
- madjam002 11mo agoYes I will be looking, thanks for the rec!
- b0ner_t0ner 11mo agoNamesilo as well.
- isodude 11mo agoWhen will Cloudflare actually split into several totally independent companies to remedy that they bring down the Internet every time they have a major issue?
- theli0nheart 11mo agoYou can't even turn off caching from Cloudflare because...the Cloudflare dashboard is down. So everyone who's wrapped their host with Cloudflare is stuck with it.
- ericzawo 11mo agoI tried to go to Downdetector before coming to Hacker News...
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- laurentiurad 11mo agoProbably they adopted vibe coding as the main way to write code
- Chrovus 11mo agoare we cooked :l
- Chrovus 11mo agoare we cooked?
- bamboozled 11mo agoNot out of the woods yet it seems...
- Chrovus 11mo agoim just concerned now :l
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- cornonthecobra 11mo agoI'm weary of the broader internet having spofs like AWS and Cloudflare. Can't change routing or DNS horizons to get around it. Things are just broken in ways that are not only opaque, but destructive due to so much relying on fragile sync state. Will my Spelling Bee QBABM count today, or will it fail and tomorrow I find out that last MA(4) didn't register, ruining my streak? Society cannot function like this! /s
- p1dda 11mo agoCloudflare fucking sucks
- misswaterfairy 11mo ago> During our attempts to remediate, we have disabled WARP [their VPN service] access in London. Users in London trying to access the Internet via WARP will see a failure to connect. Posted 4 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:04 UTC Is Cloudflare being attacked...?
- fergie 11mo agoThis line also gave me that vibe
- misswaterfairy 11mo ago> We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access [their 'zero-trust network access solution'] 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. > Posted 12 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:13 UTC Now I'm really suspicious that they were attacked...
- philipwhiuk 11mo agoI will bet it's routing misconfig.
- 0xbkt 11mo agoIt always is.
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- aberoham 11mo agoSomeone running cloudflared accidentally advertising a critical route into their Warp namespace and somehow disrupting routes for internal Cloudflare services doesn't seem too far fetched. We vibe coded a tool to mass disconnect Cloudflare Warp for incident responders: https://github.com/aberoham/unwarp https://github.com/aberoham/unwarp To go along with the shenanigans around dealing with MITM traffic inspection https://github.com/aberoham/fuwarp https://github.com/aberoham/fuwarp
- wiradikusuma 11mo agoI used to say, "Don't worry, we host it on Cloudflare. If it's down, then 30% internet is down. It's highly unlikely." Well...
- brycewray 11mo agoYou weren't wrong, but There Will Be Days Like This.
- ProllyInfamous 11mo agoThree this year, so far.
- ziml77 11mo agoYes but you also get to say "We're down? Yes of course we're down, 30% of the internet is down. Nothing we can do"
- afroboy 11mo agoLike the old saying: Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM.
- benedictboppler 11mo ago"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented." According to CF a minute ago: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7 https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7
- nixass 11mo agoLet me guess, DNS issues?
- gianpaj 11mo agoi use checklyhq.com for my website status page and those are down as well... https://sexyvoice.checkly-dashboards.com https://sexyvoice.checkly-dashboards.com
- skc 11mo agoBluesky still chugging along. Just saying.
- pogue 11mo agoThey are decentralized with servers all on the East coast that they self host. They do have points of failure that can take down the whole network, however.
- lordofgibbons 11mo agoHow did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
- ekianjo 11mo agobecause cloudfare protection blah blah, until cloudfare is down itself and then you are back to "who watches the watchmen"
- k12sosse 11mo agoThat's easy, the watchmen watchmen watch the watchmen.
- ec109685 11mo agoTotally cooked if you have Cloudflare fronting us-east-1, with no redundancies.
- tacker2000 11mo agoThe mother of all bad infra decisions.
- a012 11mo agoThey have multi cloud infra, between us-east-1 and Azure
- lbreakjai 11mo agoIt could be worse. You could have a backup on Azure.
- cj 11mo agoExcept businesses love it. A lot (and I mean a lot) of people in IT like centralization specifically because it’s hard to blame people for doing something that everyone else is doing.
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- worldsavior 11mo agoAlmost every site I'm trying to connect to is down. The internet is way too centralized.
- philiproberts 11mo agoIs this why x.com isn’t working right?
- dcjdfvk 11mo agoEven pornhub is down becuase it use cloudflare.
- pc2g4d 11mo agoDoes requiring proof-of-work in order to connect accomplish 99% of what Cloudflare does?
- mirzap 11mo agoNot even 1%
- SallysField 11mo agoPuup but, anyone else?
- 0xblinq 11mo agoAll bets on DNS being the root cause.
- 6d6b73 11mo agoHalf of the internet is down. That's what you get for giving up the control of the service that suppose to be decentralized to one company. Good, maybe if it costs companies few billions they will not put all eggs in one basket.
- keithluu 11mo agoSome CDNs are down too, for example cdn.tailwindcss.com And apparently I can't log into Hackernews?
- asim 11mo agoDigitalOcean + Gandi means nothing I run is down. Amazing. We depend far too greatly on centralised services where we deem the value of reputation and convenience exceeds the potential downsides and then the world pays for it. I think we have to feel a lot more of this pain before regulation kicks in to change things because the reality is people don't change. The only thing you can personally do is run a lot of your own stuff for things you can.
- luckylion 11mo agoIndividually, for you, what's the difference? You use a service provider, if that service provider is down, your site is down. Does it matter to you that others are also down in that instance?
- yreg 11mo agoMight even be better to go down at the same time as everyone else, because customers might be more lenient on you.
- The_President 11mo agoDigitalOcean is indeed having issues. > Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.digitalocean.com (see the browser console for more information). Yellow flags on status.digitalocean.com *
- asim 11mo agoStill nothing is down...
- dcjdfvk 11mo agoGod my favourite website pornhub.com is also down why onn earth cloudflare i just now came from school.
- SallysField 11mo agoPuup but, how about yous guys
- mhuesler 11mo agohow are we still down? it's been 2 hours lol
- pc2g4d 11mo agoMeanwhile my Wordpress blog on DigitalOcean is up. And so is DigitalOcean. My ISP is routing public internet traffic to my IPs these days. What keeps me from running my blog from home? Fear of exposing a TCP port, that's what. What do we do about that?
- doikor 11mo ago> What keeps me from running my blog from home? Depending on the contract it might not be allowed to run public network services from your home network. I had a friend doing that and once his site got popular the ISP called (or sent a letter? don't remember anymore) with "take this 10x more expensive corporate contract or we will block all this traffic". In general why the ISPs don't want you to do that (in addition to way more expensive corporate rates) is the risk of someone DDoS that site which could cause issues to large parts of their domestic customers (and depending on the country be liable to compensate those customers for not providing a service they paid for)
- trollbridge 11mo agoYeah, DigitalOcean and Dreamhost are both up. I actually self-host on 2Gig fibre service, and all my stuff is up, except I park everything behind Cloudflare since there is no way I could handle a DDoS attack.
- The_President 11mo ago> Our Engineering team is actively investigating an issue impacting multiple DigitalOcean services caused by an upstream provider incident. This disruption affects a subset of Gen AI tools, the App Platform, Load Balancer, Spaces and provisioning or management actions for new clusters. Existing clusters are not affected. Users may experience degraded performance or intermittent failures within these services. > We acknowledge the inconvenience this may cause and are working diligently to restore normal operations. Signs of recovery are starting to appear, with most requests beginning to succeed. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and provide timely updates as more information becomes available. Thank you for your patience as we work towards full service restoration. It's not down for you, but for others.
- wslh 11mo agoGarmin site not working for example, and they removed the export option from the mobile application though.
- tyjen 11mo agoWaking up to chaos. Nice.
- anshumankmr 11mo agoChatGPT is Down. What will LinkedIn posters ever do?
- robwwilliams 11mo agoAnd Anthropic Claude
- re5i5tor 11mo agoFor me right now, Claude.ai is down, but Claude Code (terminal, extension) seems to be up and happy. Suggests that API is probably up.
- sysstemlord 11mo agoThey will embark on a journey of synergy, and be agile.
- anshumankmr 11mo agoIncoming Posts on LinkedIn: what ChatGPT and Claude being down taught me about b2b SaaS
- bob1029 11mo agoI can now imagine a scenario where everyone has become so dependent on the AI tool that it going down could turn into an unanticipated black start event for the entire internet.
- anshumankmr 11mo agohttps://tenor.com/view/obiwan-kenobi-disturbance-in-the-force-star-wars-jedi-gif-10444289 https://tenor.com/view/obiwan-kenobi-disturbance-in-the-forc... I sense a great disturbance in the force... As if millions of cringefluencers suddenly cried out in terror cause they had to come up with an original thought.
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- mrcnkoba 11mo agoFor anyone reading this who desperately needs their website up, you can try this: If you manage to get to your Cloudflare DNS settings and disable the "Proxy status (Proxied)" feature (the orange cloud), it should start working again. Be aware that this change has a few immediate implications: - SSL/TLS: You will likely lose your Cloudflare-provided SSL certificate. Your site will only work if your origin server has its own valid certificate. - Security & Performance: You will lose the performance benefits (caching, minification, global edge network) and security protections (DDoS mitigation, WAF) that Cloudflare provides.
- kobalsky 11mo agoalso the API was working fine while the dash was down. if you don't have the keys make sure to grab them for the next one.
- progmetaldev 11mo agoUnfortunately, this will also expose your IP address, which may leave you vulnerable even when the WAF and DDoS protections come back up (unless you take the time to only listen for Cloudflare IP address ranges, which could still take a beefy server if you're having to filter large amounts of traffic).
- creatonez 11mo agoThis will also reveal your backend internal IP addresses. Anyone can find permanent logs of public IP addresses used by even obscure domain names, so potential adversaries don't necessarily have to be paying attention at the exact right time to find it.
- wrathofmonads 11mo agoGemini and other agents are now failing when they search for something on the web. ChatGPT can't even be accessed.
- shreyrey 11mo agoThe privacy kingpin in india, has been caught and most of the network are affected. We will be resuming the servers from Sweden shortly.
- paraboul 11mo agoAll trains are stuck in south of France for « broken signalisation ». Wonder how related this is. Edit: it was related https://www.laprovence.com/article/region/83645099971988/panne-chez-cloudflare-tous-les-tgv-a-larret-dans-le-sud-est-des-suppressions-et-des-retards-tres-importants https://www.laprovence.com/article/region/83645099971988/pan... Edit2: They edited the article stating it wasn't related.
- misswaterfairy 11mo agoIf they do use Cloudflare... why in the everlasting name of Hell did they connect a railway control and signalling system to the Internet?!!!
- amenghra 11mo agoBecause javascript programmers are cheaper/easier/whatever to hire? So everything becomes web-centric. (I'm hoping for this comment to be sarcastic but I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out not to be)
- mghackerlady 11mo agoDon't say that, you might hurt the JS devs feelings
- oxy1tumn 11mo agoUpdate: Cloudflare has announced they will be sacrificing their CEO at the alter in penance
- longsword 11mo agoused a down-detector site to check if cloudflare is down, but the site is running on cloudflare, so i couldnt check if cloudflare was down for anyone else, because cloudflare was down
- ropable 11mo agoThere's something maliciously satisfying about seeing your own self-hosted stuff working while things behind Cloudflare or AWS are broken. Sure, they have like four more nines that me, but right now I'm sitting pretty.
- ArcHound 11mo agoMy (s)crappy personal site was up during the AWS outage, Azure outage and now Cloud flare outage. And I have it for 2 months only! Maybe I can add a tracker somewhere, might be fun.
- FinnKuhn 11mo agoCan recommend Uptime Kuma for this purpose: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
- dizhn 11mo agoWhere would you put it? :) (I have one on the oracle free tier)
- FinnKuhn 11mo agoI just selfhost it, but that has the disadvantage that it also went out during my ISP's and Cloudflares outage. ;)
- ArcHound 11mo agoI actually have exactly this, paired with ntfy. I was thinking more like badges: "was up during AWS outage in 2025" etc.
- FinnKuhn 11mo agoUptime Kuma already has some automatically generated badges[1], but not for specific events. Your could manually built your own custom ones based on the same framework[2] though. [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/wiki/Badge https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/wiki/Badge [2] https://shields.io/ https://shields.io/
- ekianjo 11mo agoCloudfare completely breaking the internet...
- DASD 11mo agoInteresting(unnerving?) to see a number of domain registrars that offer their own DNS services utilize at least some kind of Cloudflare service for at least their own web fronts. Did a check on 6 registrar sites I currently interact with and half were down(Namecheap/Spaceship, Name, Dynadot) and up(Porkbun, Gandi, GoDaddy).
- 26thCreator 11mo agoI was reading some novels today and then Bam! a cliff hanger now...
- MaKey 11mo agoMaybe this incident will make people rethink putting Cloudflare blindly in front of every website.
- senfiaj 11mo agoIn theory even a single company service could be distributed, so only a fraction of websites would be affected, thus it's not a necessity to be a single point of failure. So I still don't like this argument "you see what happens when over half of the internet relies on Cloudflare". And yes, I'm writing this as a Cloudflare user whose blog is now down because of this. Cloudflare is still convenient and accessible for many people, no wonder why it's so popular. But, yeah, it's still a horrible outage, much worse than the Amazon one.
- mallets 11mo agoThe "omg centralized infra" cries after every such event kind of misses the point. Hosting with smaller companies (shared, vps, dedi, colo whatever) will likely result in far worse downtimes, individually. Ofc the bigger perception issue here is many services going out at the same time, but why would (most) providers care if their annual downtime does or doesn't coincide with others? Their overall reliability is no better or worse had only their service gone down. All of this can change ofc if this becomes a regular thing, the absolute hours of downtime does matter.
- senfiaj 11mo agoExactly.
- samuelokoroafor 11mo agoThis centralisation is worrisome. Single points of failures have always been a bad idea, especially when that point of failure is out of your control. PS:Someone really doesn't want Gemini 3 to get air time today
- gku 11mo agoAnyone seeing a link between AI-generated infra code and this year’s wave in popular service outages?
- neop1x 11mo agoYour origin servers are protected now as no one can access them. Thanks for choosing CloudFlare's MITM "protection".
- 0xcb0 11mo agoSo they broke the internet. Nice! Never seen so many sites not working. Never seen so many desktop app suddenly stop working. I don't want to be the person responsible for this. And this again has thought me it's better to no rely on external services. Even though they seem to big to fail.
- arend321 11mo agoI sometimes question my business decision to have a multi-cloud, multi-region web presence where it is totally acceptable to be down with the big boys.
- fbrchps 11mo agoThat was something we discussed at my workplace. Prior hosting provider was a little-known company with decent enough track record, but because they employed humans, stuff would break. When it did break, C-suite would panic about how much revenue is lost, etc. The number of outages was "reasonable" to anyone who understood the technical side, but non-technical would complain for weeks after an outage about how we're always down, "well BigServiceX doesn't break ever, why do we?", and again lost revenue. Now on Azure/Cloudflare, we go down when everyone else does, but C-Suite goes "oh it's not just us, and it's out of our control? Okay let us know when it fixes itself." A great lesson in optics and perception, for our junior team members.
- souvlakee 11mo agoMany services have just disabled the CF proxy and use only DNS. If your end server has SSL and can handle some traffic, it might work for a while.
- krauses 11mo agoWhat do we actually lose going from cloud back to ground? The mass centralization is a massive attack vector for organized attempts to disrupt business in the west. But we’re not doing anything about it because we’ve made a mountain at of a molehill. Was it that hard to manage everything locally? I get that there’s plenty of security implications going that route, but it would be much harder to bring down t large portions of online business with a single attack.
- jillesvangurp 11mo ago> What do we actually lose going from cloud back to ground? A lot of money related to stuff you currently don't have to worry about. I remember how shit worked before AWS. People don't remember how costly and time consuming this stuff used to be. We had close to 50 people in our local ops team back in the day when I was working with Nokia 13 years ago. They had to deal with data center outages, expensive storage solutions failing, network links between data centers, offices, firewalls, self hosted Jira running out of memory, and a lot of other crap that I don't spend a lot of time about worrying with a cloud based setup. Just a short list of stuff that repeatedly was an issue. Nice when it worked. But nowhere near five nines of uptime. That ops team alone cost probably a few million per year in salaries alone. I knew some people in that team. Good solid people but it always seemed like a thankless and stressful job to me. Basically constant firefighting while getting people barking at you to just get stuff working. Later a lot of that stuff moved into AWS and things became a lot easier and the need for that team largely went away. The first few teams doing that caused a bit of controversy internally until management realized that those teams were saving money. Then that quickly turned around. And it wasn't like AWS was cheap. I worked in one of those teams. That entire ops team was replaced by 2-3 clued in devops people that were able to move a lot faster. Subsequent layoff rounds in Nokia hit internal IT and ops teams hard early on in the years leading up to the demise of the phone business.
- dust-jacket 11mo agoYeah, people have such short memories for this stuff. When we ran our own servers a couple of jobs ago, we had a rota of people who'd be on call for events like failing disks. I don't want to ever do that again. In general, I'm much happier with the current status of "it all works" or "it's ALL broken and its someone else's job to fix it as fast as possible"! Not saying its perfect but neither was on-prem/colocation
- Shuddown 11mo agoWanted to check if it was DNS again but https://isitdns.com/ https://isitdns.com/ is also down…
- souvlakee 11mo agoWe definitely need a version without CF.
- philipwhiuk 11mo agoThen the page will just be down for load reasons.
- mystifyingpoi 11mo agoThis was geniuinely funny, thanks for that.
- Aldipower 11mo agoThis sentence is slowly getting boring after all those recent outages: My web app hosted on Hetzner and BunnyCDN still works. That shows, the distributed nature of the internet is still there. It is a problem though, if everything is funneled through one provider.
- ndhikaa 11mo agohahaha this is nuts, can we connect to each other without cloudflare?
- ivan-ivanov 11mo agointeresting that HN is not on Cloudflare but the YC website is behind Cloudflare so it's also down
- jordanb 11mo agoLike AWS I can't help but think we're going to get more and more of these as the tech industry continues to DOGE its workforce.
- bamboozled 11mo agoVibe coding too
- dpacmittal 11mo agoDidn't realize Twitter uses cloudflare. It seems to be down as well
- philipwhiuk 11mo agoI believe it used to be AWS and they switched.
- rhim 11mo agoIt's so crazy and scary that Cloudflare is the single point of failure for the internet.
- GeorgeWoff25 11mo agoI can't login in to Cloudflare itself because it is itself affected, holy bs
- petecooper 11mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc >I was Cloudflare's CTO. A gentle reminder to not take any CF-related frustrations out on John today.
- philipwhiuk 11mo agoHe's now on the Board so not left. Not that I think blaming individuals on forums who are already under stress is a good strategy anyway.
- tapanjk 11mo agoHis personal website is down too.
- theideaofcoffee 11mo agoOh no, we can’t take a (former) executive to task about what they’ve wrought with their influence!!! That would be wrong. If anything, he should be the first to be blamed for the greater and greater effect this tech monster has on internet stability, since, you know, his people built it.
- ph1l337 11mo agoLuckily for everyone including Guilhermo he can't dunk on the situation since x.com is down as well.
- kelvinzero 11mo agoJakarta
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- HYUNGYUN 11mo agoSeoul down
- linhns 11mo agoWell, was reading the docs for Express, and shouted wtf a couple of times, before seeing this post on HN.
- ck2 11mo agois there any way to get past challenges.cloudflare.com with tokens or something? so stupid there is no fallback and can take down 50% of the internet adding:looks like even Cloudflare's Silk Privacy Pass with challenge tokens is broken such a great idea to put half the web behind a single fail point without fallover
- arpit_mudgal 11mo agoBLR Down
- saanville 11mo agocursed at me ISP for absolutely nothing
- tacker2000 11mo agoEven ChatGPT.com is down! Wow!
- makeavish 11mo agoNPM also seems to be down due to this! https://status.npmjs.org https://status.npmjs.org
- hoshikihao 11mo agoI was so scared, I thought my VPN had failed.
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- fatty_patty89 11mo agoI hecking love depending on big corpo
- bakigul 11mo agoThis is a nightmare situation, we can't get in anywhere
- navigate8310 11mo agoHow come cloudflare.com is still working, do they not trust their own orange proxy service?
- imba97 11mo ago[dead]
- davidmurdoch 11mo agoSpeaking of 5 9s, how would you achieve 5 9s for a basic CRUD app that doesn't need to scale, but still be globally accessible? No auth, micro services, email or 3rd party services. Just a classic backend connected to a db (any db tech, hosted wherever), that serves up some html.
- christophilus 11mo agoStock VPS somewhere like OVH or Hetzner, with a replica in a different provider?
- davidmurdoch 11mo agoDoesn't Hetzner carry the risk if getting kicked off on a whim? Only time I hear about them is when someone gets kicked out.
- kjuulh 11mo agoIt depends on the infrastructure you're running on. There was a post yesterday going fairly into depth how you do such calculations https://authress.io/knowledge-base/articles/2025/11/01/how-we-prevent-aws-downtime-impacts https://authress.io/knowledge-base/articles/2025/11/01/how-w... You probably cannot achieve this with a single node, so you'll at least need to replicate it a few times to combat the normal 2-3 9s you get from a single node. But then you've got load balancers and dns, which can also serve as single point of failure, as seen with cloudflare. Depending on the database type and choice, it varies. If you've got a single node of postgres, you can likely never achieve more than 2-3 9s (aws guarantees 3 9s for a multi-az RDS). But if you do multi-master cockroach etc, you can maybe achieve 5 9s just on the database layer, or using spanner. But you'll basically need to have 5 9s which means quite a bit of redundancy in all the layers going to and from your app and data. The database and DNS being the most difficult. Reliable DNS provider with 5 9s of uptime guarantees -> multi-master load balancer each with 3 9s, -> each load balancer serving 3 or more apps each with 3 9s of availability, going to a database(s) with 5 9s. This page from google shows their uptime guarantees for big tables, 3 9s for a single region with a cluster. 4 9s for multi cluster and 5 9s for multi region https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/infra-reliability-guide/building-blocks#multiple-clusters_1 https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/infra-reliability... In general it doesn't matter really what you're running, it is all about redundancy. Whether that is instances, cloud vendor, region, zone etc.
- endoacustica 11mo agoSame problem here in Italy. Website up and down again.
- Mattia2001 11mo agoRome, Palermo, Milan, Catania Down
- skor 11mo agowhy do I always get "Server Error" and not an explanation that Cloudflare is having problems? This makes me look bad in front of my customers.
- Bro1309 11mo agoIs it down again??
- sergiotapia 11mo agoX is down, and many many other sites. This is not the web I grew up on. Do not centralize people.
- bezier-curve 11mo agoI'm really surprised by the sheer scale of how many websites this outage is affecting. We really need to decentralize all of these monolith clouds.
- abdulwahidgul 11mo agoSingapore is down as well in Asia
- Mattia2001 11mo agoProbably the IDF trying a mass network attack to go and Occupy the Holy See
- stupidityonmaxx 11mo agoand when i tell people they dont need cf for most of their sites they laugh at me. look whos laughing now. theyre down, im up
- Mattia2001 11mo agoahahahhaahah
- j0nimost 11mo agoafrica down as well
- danaos 11mo agodl.acm.org down, arxiv.org has my back!
- dvcoolarun 11mo agoThere was an article on HN a few days back about how companies like this are influencing the overall freedom of the web (I missed the source) and their own way of doing things. Other examples of influence I see similarly are of Vercel, like with enterprise. Even a few days back, we saw AWS.
- spacecadet 11mo agoTesting the fences... clever girl...
- Aeolun 11mo agoWhy the hell is my claude saying "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed." And then still failing anyway? Why do I need CloudFlare to access claude.io? Wtf?
- philipwhiuk 11mo agoAI companies don't want AI to use AI.
- burnt-resistor 11mo agoDallas CF is down, so basically every app and website is down.
- rgilton 11mo agoWhat would the Internet's architecture have to look like for DDOS'ing to be a thing of the past, and therefore Cloudflare to not be needed? I know there are solutions like IPFS out there for doing distributed/decentralised static content distribution, but that seems like only part of the problem. There are obviously more types of operation that occur via the network -- e.g. transactions with single remote pieces of equipment etc, which by their nature cannot be decentralised. Anyone know of research out there into changing the way that packet-routing/switching works so that 'DDOS' just isn't a thing? Of course I appreciate there are a lot of things to get right in that!
- smt88 11mo agoIt's impossible to stop DDoS attacks because of the first "D". If a botnet gets access through 500k IP addresses belonging to home users around the world, there's no way you could have prepared yourself ahead of time. The only real solution is to drastically increase regulation around security updates for consumer hardware.
- rgilton 11mo agoMaybe that's the case, but it seems like this conclusion is based on the current architecture of the internet. Maybe there are ways of changing it that mean these issues are not a thing!
- smt88 11mo agoIt's not an architectural problem. It's a fundamental issue with trust and distributed systems. The same issues occur in physical spaces, like highways. The core issue is that hackers can steal the "identity" of internet customers at scale, not that the internet allows unauthenticated traffic.
- rgilton 11mo ago> The core issue is that hackers can steal the "identity" of internet customers at scale That's on one end, right? There's also the other end: as a user connecting to the network, currently one is subscribing to receiving packets from literally everyone else on the internet. > It's a fundamental issue with trust and distributed systems We currently trust entities within the network to route packets as they are asked. The network can tolerate some level of bad actors within that, but there is still trust in the existing system. What if the things we trusted the network to do were to change slightly?
- t1234s 11mo agoThese big cloud providers are turning into giant off-switches for the internet
- greenie_beans 11mo agothought i'd been hacked, was ready to throw in the towel for this career and my saas
- davneet4u 11mo agoIt's outrageous that it hasn't been fixed since 2 hours
- CuriousRose 11mo agoCloudflare runs a high demand service, and the centralisation does deserve scrutiny. I think a good middle ground I’ll adopt is self hosting critical services and then when they have an outage redirect traffic to a Cloudflare outage banner.
- monstertank 11mo agoGemini is up, I asked it to explain what's going on in cave man speak: YOU: Ask cave-chief for fire. CAVE-CHIEF (Cloudflare): Big strong rock wall around many other cave fires (other websites). Good, fast wall! MANY CAVE-PEOPLE: Shout at rock wall to get fire. ROCK WALL: Suddenly… CRACK! Wall forgets which cave has which fire! Too many shouts! RESULT: Your Shout: Rock wall does not hear you, or sends you to wrong cave. Other Caves (like X, big games): Fire is there, but wall is broken. Cannot get to fire. ME (Gemini): My cave has my own wall! Not rock wall chief! So my fire is still burning! Good! BIG PROBLEM: Big strong wall broke. Nobody gets fire fast. Wall chief must fix strong rock fast!
- rzerowan 11mo agoOne of the things that i didnt like about cloudflare MITM as a service is their requirement if you want SSL/CDN that you must use their DNS. Overconcentration of infra within one single pint of disruption with no easy outs when the stack tips over. Sadly i dont see any changes or rethink to be more decentralised even after this outage.
- dust-jacket 11mo agoto be clear, that's just a limitation on their free service. If you pay, you can keep your own DNS
- rzerowan 11mo agoYeah they keep re-inforcing bad vendor lockin practices. id guess the number of free users surpass the paying ones , and situations like these leave them all unable to recover.
- jonathanlydall 11mo agoTheir paid "professional" plan also has this limitation, only "enterprise" and up does not.
- dust-jacket 11mo agoah, didn't realise that, thanks
- realityking 11mo agoThe $199/month/zone Business plan already offers this feature.
- andy_ppp 11mo agoI honestly think people should practice more chaos engineering themselves and switch off services at random like Cloudflare and have failure plans.
- thinkindie 11mo agoFor some reason linear.app is working but according to their headers they should be behind Cloudflare.
- sambaumann 11mo agoAccording to the status page services are being restored
- thinkindie 11mo agoI still find a lot of websites/applications (including my own) affected.
- Aeolun 11mo agoHey, this is fun, all my websites are still up! I wonder how that happened? I don't even have to worry about my docker registry being down because I set up my own after the last global outage.
- pqdbr 11mo agoI had a lot of fun like you as well, until I got my first DDoS and bot attacks. There's a reason Cloudflare has 20% of internet traffic.
- chanux 11mo agoDoes it cost you a lot? One of my other worries is having fight bots over a couple hobby sites while I have other fires to put out (generally in life).
- jonathanlydall 11mo agoWhenever I try collapse root threads on this page it locks up the browser for 5+ seconds. Windows 11, latest Edge browser, 64GB of RAM, 13th Gen i7.
- igleria 11mo agoDoes not happen to me under ubuntu, FWIW
- mghackerlady 11mo ago>Windows 11, latest Edge browser There's your issue
- jonathanlydall 11mo agoWindows 11 has some annoying UI decisions, but is otherwise 100% reliable for me and absolutely my OS of choice. Edge is essentially Chrome, but generally ties in better with the MS accounts ecosystem which I already use. So, what, specifically, is the issue?
- Telemakhos 11mo agoAWS, Azure, now Cloudflare, all within a month, are hit with configuration errors that are definitely neither signs of more surveillance gear being added by government agencies nor attacks by hostile powers. It's a shame that these fine services that everyone apparently needs and that worked so well for so long without a problem suddenly all have problems at the same time.
- strict9 11mo agoMost or all of these lost significant institutional knowledge through layoff after layoff and jobs moved to lower cost countries. Maybe a coincidence or maybe not.
- lc64 11mo agoAWS was not a configuration error, it was a race condition on their load balancer's automated DNS record attribution that caused empty DNS records. As that issue was being fixed, it cascaded into further, more complex issues overloading EC2 instance provisioning.
- Iulioh 11mo agoI don't get how you ran to that conclusion...
- ElectricSpoon 11mo agoThose football playoffs are really getting out of hand… Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157000
- TheJuli 11mo agoGood one!
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- mulhoon 11mo agoI know this is bad, and some people's livelihood and lives rely on critical infrastructure, but when these things happen, I sometimes think GOOD!, let's all just take a breather for a minute yeh? Go outside.
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- pogue 11mo agoWhy are we seeing AWS, then Azure, then Cloudflare all going down just out of the blue? I know they go down occasionally, but it's typically not major outages like this...
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- Diddylovesparty 11mo agoIts ironic that downdetector is down as well..
- Mattia2001 11mo agodowndetector is up in italy
- ArtemGetman 11mo ago[dead]
- m00dy 11mo agoI think Companies are firing wrong people that we get these downtimes so often.
- BeFlatXIII 11mo agoTime to check Hacker News instead of work. Even my usual procrastination websites are down due to this.
- yanhangyhy 11mo agofirst time know a porn website i use is backed by cloudflare.
- abelanger 11mo agoIf anyone needs commands for turning off the CF proxy for their domains and happens to have a Cloudflare API token. First you can grab the zone ID via: curl -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones" -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq -r '.result[] | "\(.id) \(.name)"' And a list of DNS records using: curl -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID/dns_records" -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" Each DNS record will have an ID associated. Finally patch the relevant records: curl -X PATCH "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID/dns_records/$RECORD_ID" -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"proxied":false}' Copying from a sibling comment - some warnings: - SSL/TLS: You will likely lose your Cloudflare-provided SSL certificate. Your site will only work if your origin server has its own valid certificate. - Security & Performance: You will lose the performance benefits (caching, minification, global edge network) and security protections (DDoS mitigation, WAF) that Cloudflare provides. - This will also reveal your backend internal IP addresses. Anyone can find permanent logs of public IP addresses used by even obscure domain names, so potential adversaries don't necessarily have to be paying attention at the exact right time to find it.
- mig4ng 11mo agoAwesome! I did it via the Terraform provider, but for anyone else without access to the dashboard this is great. Thank you!
- sam-cop-vimes 11mo agoThis is exactly what we've decided we should do next time. Unfortunately we didn't generate an API token so we are sitting twiddling our thumbs. Edit: seems like we are back online!
- napsterbr 11mo agoTook me ~30 minutes but eventually I was able to log in, get past the 2FA screen and change a DNS record. I surely missed a valid API token today.
- digdugdirk 11mo agoIf someone wanted to learn about how the modern infrastructure stack works, and why things like this occur, where would be some good resources to start?
- _1tan 11mo agoIncident post mortems: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
- lilOnion 11mo agoI just wanted to ask the same thing. I have a really basic idea of how everything is connected but would love to jump in more in depth. How can such big incidents occur where half of the internet is down because of one company and what can be done to prevent that?
- pona-a 11mo agoOur national transit agency is apparently a customer. The departure tables are borked, showing incorrect data, the route map stopped updating, the website and route planner are down, and the API returns garbage. Despite everything, the management will be pleased to know the ads kept on running offline. Why would you put a WAP between devices you control and your own infra, God knows.
- cube00 11mo ago> Why would you put a WAP between devices you control and your own infra Checkbox security says a WAP is required and no CISO will put their neck on the line to approve the exemption.
- wslh 11mo agoWelcome to AOL.
- thiago_fm 11mo agoChatGPT isn't working. No suicides created by ChatGPT Today. Billions of dollars in GPU will sit idle. Sudden drop of Linkedin content... World is a better place
- djfobbz 11mo agoI’d rather mitigate a DDoS attack on my own servers than deal with Cloudflare. Having to prove you’re human is the second-worst thing on my list, right after accepting cookies. Those two things alone have made browsing the web a worse experience than it was in the late 90s or early 2000s.
- reassess_blind 11mo agoHow do you plan on mitigating a DDoS on your own servers?
- solusipse 11mo agohe'll politely ask them to stop
- schnebbau 11mo agoYou wait for it to stop.
- FinnKuhn 11mo agoThat is not what mitigating means.
- ramon156 11mo agoYou turn off the screen. They can't hurt you if you don't see them
- slipperybeluga 11mo ago[dead]
- djfobbz 11mo agoAlright kids, breathe...a DDoS attack isn't the end of the world, it's just the internet throwing a tantrum. If you really don't want to use a fancy protection provider, you can still act like a grown-up: get your datacenter to filter trash at the edge, announce a more specific prefix with BGP so you can shift traffic, drop junk with strict ACLs, and turn on basic rate limiting so bots get bored. You can also tune your kernel so it doesn't faint at SYN storms, and if the firehose gets too big, pop out a more specific BGP prefix from a backup path or secondary router so you can pull production away from the burning IP.
- redbell 11mo agoThis Internet thing is steadily becoming the most fragile surface attack out there. No need for nuclear weapons anymore, just hit Cloudflare and AWS and we are back to the stone age.
- IAmGraydon 11mo agoI host everything on Linode (have for over a decade) and am never caught up in these outages.
- nicolaslem 11mo agoLinode has been rock solid for me. I wanted to back this comment with uptime numbers, unfortunately the service I use for that, Uptime Robot, is down because of Cloudflare...
- mef 11mo agoaisuru?
- medusae 11mo agostill down in Australia
- porker 11mo agoIs there any way to remove every SPOF? Currently I have multi-region loadbalanced servers. DNS and WAF (and the load balancer) on Cloudflare. Moving DNS elsewhere is step 1 so I'm not locked out - but then I can't use Cloudflare full stop (without enterprise pricing). Multi-provider DNS and WAF - okay I could see how that works. But what about the global load balancer, surely that has to remain a single point of failure?
- dangoodmanUT 11mo agoNo? The point of cloudflare is that they remove the spof for you, but I guess we can say they didn't do it quite perfectly
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- zeroq 11mo agothe day the earth stood still
- 1970-01-01 11mo agoLooking forward to seeing their RCA. I'm guessing it's going to be glossy in terms of actual customer impact. "We didn't go offline, we just had 100% errors. For 60 minutes."
- thekid314 11mo agoThis NYTimes article makes it sound like the problem is fixed, but I'm not seeing any improvement yet. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/cloudflare-down-challenges-error.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/cloudflare-down-...
- philipwhiuk 11mo agoLatest is: Update - The team is continuing to focus on restoring service post-fix. We are mitigating several issues that remain post-deployment. Nov 18, 2025 - 15:40 UTC
- nish__ 11mo agoCloudflare has always been a shit company.
- mrkramer 11mo ago[dead]
- DeathArrow 11mo agoMy theory is that people's skills are getting worse. Attention spans are diminishing, memory is shrinking. People age and retire, new less skilled generations are replacing them. There are studies about declining IQ in the last decades. Probably mobile phones and social media are to blame. We see the signs with Amazon and Cloudflare going down, Windows Update breaking stuff. But the worse is yet to come, and I am thinking about airport traffic control, nuclear power plants, surgeons...
- andsoitis 11mo ago> There are studies about declining IQ in the last decades. Probably mobile phones and social media are to blame. It is much more nuanced than that. The long-term rise (Flynn Effect) of IQs in the 20th century is widely believed to be driven by environmental factors more than genetics. Plateau / decline is context-dependent: The reversal or slowdown isn’t universal, like you suggest. It seems more pronounced in certain countries or cohorts. Cognitive abilities are diversifying: As people specialize more (education, careers, lifestyles), the structure of intelligence (how different cognitive skills relate) might be changing.
- Dquiroga 11mo agoSince when does critical infrastructure fail weekly?! One week is AWS, then azure + AWS, now cloudfare... Time to go back to on prem. AWS and co are too expensive anyways
- brandon272 11mo agoA lot of people are "on prem" but use CloudFlare to proxy traffic for DDoS attack mitigation, among other reasons.
- speckx 11mo agoI wish the "pause CF" button would work via API or via any other way, even if there is an outage like this.
- senfiaj 11mo agoThis is worse than than the Amazon outage. I couldn't even login to Cloudflare.
- fpauser 11mo agoSPOF
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- tovej 11mo agoIs anybody keeping statistics on the frequency of these big global internet outages? It seems to be happening extremely frequently as of late, but it would be nice to have some data on that.
- amukbils 11mo agoOpenAI & chatGPT also down from this
- an-allen 11mo agoWhat?! No way! Keen to see the post mortem on this. Its always DNS.
- yusufmalikul 11mo agoI just comment here to be part of the history.
- kevinkatzke 11mo agoIs it me or do these outages happen pretty often lately?
- dnw 11mo agoOur doctor's office can't make appointments because their "system is down."
- Jamie452 11mo agoGive me back ChatGPT pls
- kordlessagain 11mo agoMan in the middle!
- alexpadula 11mo agoOh boy
- elcapithanos 11mo agoI'm genuinely curious how much of the web depends on cloudflare and AWS. This centralisation sucks though
- erichocean 11mo agoCloudflare captchas don't work, which has taken down both Claude and Perplexity for me. Lovely.
- theoldgreybeard 11mo agoI miss the old internet where 1 company having an outage didn't take down most of it.
- dSebastien 11mo agoPhew, my latest 3h30 workshop about Obsidian was saved. I recorded it this morning, not knowing about the Cloudflare issue (probably started while I was busy). I'm using Circle.so and they're down (my community site is now inaccessible). Luckily, they probably use AWS S3 or similar to host their files, so that part is still up and running. Meanwhile all my sites are down. I'll just wait this one out, it's not the end of the world for me. My GitHub actions are also down for one of my project because some third-party deps go through Cloudflare (Vulkan SDK). Just yesterday I was thinking to myself: "I don't like this dependency on that URL...". Now I like it even less
- lucky-Scarlett 11mo agoI've been waiting for hours, it looks like I can finally take a day off today.
- TimCTRL 11mo agoat least with Cloudflare, we may have the postmortem report tommorow
- haritha-j 11mo agomakes you realise, if cloudflare or one of these large organisations decides to (/ gets ordered by a deranged US president to) block your internet access, that's a whole lot of internet you're suddenly cut off from. Yes, i know there are circumventions, but its still a owrrying thought.
- fatchan 11mo agoOnce again vindicated by running my own CDN and not living with the irrational belief that everything needs cloudflare.
- cheerioty 11mo agoI swear they all sleeping and that one guy on call is like "sheeeeet"...
- ghoshbishakh 11mo agoFor cf tunnel alternatives are available, I maintain pinggy.io
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- brubsby 11mo agoI can't rebuild my NixOS image because of this lol. (chrome install not working)
- herbst 11mo agoI am paying for this shit service and this is my longest downtime I had in years. Can anyone recommend any other bottleneck to be annoyed with in future?
- r721 11mo agoQuote from The Guardian's story: >A spokesperson for Cloudflare said: “We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services beginning at 11.20am. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors. While most traffic for most services continued to flow as normal, there were elevated errors across multiple Cloudflare services. >“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-the-internet https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflar...
- Jamie452 11mo agoSounds like it may have been a cyber attack...
- lm28469 11mo agoThat's not what I'm hearing from insiders
- delfinom 11mo ago"Unusual spike of traffic" can just be errant misconfiguration that causes traffic spikes just from TCP retries or the like. Jumping to "cyber attack" is eating up Hollywood drama. In most cases, it's just cloud services eating shit from a bug.
- catholiccs 11mo agoPEBKAC error
- mrP1p1 11mo agoGpt and perplexity still down
- mrP1p1 11mo agoGermany
- endoacustica 11mo agoRight now is working in Italy: https://www.endoacustica.com/ https://www.endoacustica.com/ I hope will be not down again.
- eruci 11mo agoThis is ridiculous: They just posted: Update We've deployed a change which has restored dashboard services. We are still working to remediate broad application services impact Posted 2 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:34 UTC but,.. I'm stuck at the captcha that does not work: dash.cloudflare.com Verifying you are human. This may take a few seconds. dash.cloudflare.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.
- dzink 11mo agoIt’s back.
- HocusLocus 11mo agoThat must have been a really big backhoe...
- shridharxp 11mo agoIt's interesting to see hacker news response time reaching almost 2 seconds for this post.
- VoodooJuJu 11mo ago[dead]
- robotfelix 11mo ago> A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal. Posted 3 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:42 UTC Seems like they think they've fixed it fully this time!
- gpi 11mo agoClose! They just updated their states and it's back to working on a fix Update - Some customers may be still experiencing issues logging into or using the Cloudflare dashboard. We are working on a fix to resolve this, and continuing to monitor for any further issues. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:57 UTC
- psim1 11mo agoLater today or tomorrow there's going to be a post on HN pointing to Cloudflare's RCA and multitudes here are going to praise CF for their transparency. Let's not forget that CF sucks and took half the internet down for four hours. Transparency or no, this should not be happening.
- rikafurude21 11mo agoAlot of things shouldnt be happening. Fact is that no one forced half the internet to make CF their point of failure. The internet should ask themselves if that was the right call
- fasteo 11mo agoThe whole damn internet now depends on them. I guess I am bullish for $NET
- NooneAtAll3 11mo agomonopoly causes problems for all customers? oh no, anyway
- renegat0x0 11mo agoThis reminds me that I really like self-hosting. While it is true that many of things do not work, all my services do work. It has some tradeoffs of course.
- telepromptereye 11mo agoI didn’t see anyone comment this directly, but something these recent outages made me wonder, having spent a good chunk of my career in 24/7 tech support, is that I can’t even fathom the amount of people who have been: - restarting their routers and computers instead of taking their morning shower, getting their morning coffee, taking their medication on time because they’re freaking out, etc. - calling ISPs in a furious mood not knowing it’s a service in the stack and not the provider’s fault (maybe) - being late for work in general - getting into arguments with friends and family and coworkers about politics and economics - being interrupted making their jerk chicken
- koakuma-chan 11mo agoMy static website hosted on cloudflare works :/
- Oopsin 11mo agoshould we think about Akamai
- gadsnprch 11mo agoThis seems to corroborate the recent controversial claims that American workers do not possess the aptitudes needed to succeed in the 21st century. If only we could have gotten more children to learn to code. Sigh.
- dpacmittal 11mo agoCan't wait to read their post-mortem report
- Stasshe 11mo agoin Japan, now, it's alive. how about your location?
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- mococa 11mo agoPretty sure they used Vibe Coding...
- acc_297 11mo agoIf a cloud vendor with 1 million users experiences a long term outage: the vendor has a serious problem. If a cloud vendor with 1 billion users experiences a long term outage: the internet has a serious problem. Yada-yada-yada xkcd/2347 but it's the big block in the middle which crumbled
- octoberfranklin 11mo agoWhat part of "single point of failure" do people not understand? Stop. Using. Cloudflare.
- aavshr 11mo ago> 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. From the CTO, Source: https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646 https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646
- imdsm 11mo agoConfiguration changes are dangerous for CF it seems, and knocked down $NET almost 4% today. I wonder what the industry wide impact is for each of these outages?
- sammy2255 11mo agoPre market was red for all tech stocks today before the outage even happened
- hbbio 11mo agoYes, if anything it's bullish on CloudFlare because many investors don't realize how pervasive it is.
- nobody9999 11mo ago>Configuration changes are dangerous for CF it seems, and knocked down $NET almost 4% today. I wonder what the industry wide impact is for each of these outages? This is becoming the "new normal." It seems like every few months, there's another "outage" that takes down vast swathes of internet properties, since they're all dependent on a few platforms and those platforms are, clearly, poorly run. This isn't rocket surgery here. Strong change management, QA processes and active business continuity planning/infrastructure would likely have caught this (or not), as is clear from other large platforms that we don't even think about because outages are so rare. Like airline reservations systems[0], credit card authorization systems from VISA/MasterCard, American Express, etc. Those systems (and others) have outages in the "once a decade" or even much, much, longer ranges. Are the folks over at SABRE and American Express that much smarter and better than Cloudflare/AWS/Google Cloud/etc.? No. Not even close. What they are is careful as they know their business is dependent on making sure their customers can use their services anytime/anywhere, without issue. It amazes me the level of "Stockholm Syndrome"[1] expressed by many posting to this thread, expressing relief that it wasn't "an attack" and essentially blaming themselves for not having the right tools (API keys, etc.) to recover from the gross incompetence of, this time at least, Cloudflare. I don't doubt that I'll get lots of push back from folks claiming, "it's hard to do things at scale," and/or "there are way too many moving parts," and the like. Other organizations like the ones I mention above don't screw they're customers every 4-6 months with (clearly) insufficiently tested configuration and infrastructure changes. Yet many here seem to think that's fine, even though such outages are often crushing to their businesses. But if the customers of these huge providers don't demand better, they'll only get worse. And that's not (at least in my experience) a very deep or profound idea. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_reservations_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_reservations_system [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
- gk1 11mo agoAaaaand it's down again.
- fasteo 11mo ago> a routine configuration change we made Every.Single.Time [1] https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646 https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646
- sidcool 11mo agoThe status is still Red on their dashboard.
- tmaly 11mo agoWhat are the odds this is a human configuration error related to DNS?
- abhisek 11mo agoThis is crazy. The internet has so much direct and transitive dependency on Cloudflare today. Pretty much the #1 dev slacking excuse today is no longer code compiling but cloudflare is down.
- asimpletune 11mo agoEmail workers of all things seem to have slowed down dramatically, although they're not down completely.
- eth0up 11mo agoI happened to be working with Claude when this occurred. Having no idea what exactly what the cause was, I jumped over to GPT and observed the same. I did a dig challenges.cloudflare.com and by the time I'd figured out kind of what was happening, it seemed to have... resolved itself I must say I'm astonished, as naive as it may be, to see the number of separate platforms affected by this. And it has been a bit of a learning experience too.
- ramon156 11mo agois anyone's hackernews lagging when loading the comments? ive seen posts with 2k comments before but for some reason this took longer
- catholiccs 11mo agoPEBKAC error
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- bigbuppo 11mo agoHas anyone else noticed a major drop in email spam with this cloudflare outage?
- omani 11mo agoone way to mitigate DDoS is to enforce source IP checks on the way OUT of a datacenter (egress). sure there are botnets, infected devices, etc that would conform to this but where does the sheer power of a big ddos attack come from? including those who sell it as a service. they have to have some infrastructure in some datacenter right? make a law that forces every edge router of a datacenter to check for source IP and you would eliminate a very big portion of DDoS as we know it. until then, the only real and effective method of mitigating a DDoS attack is with even more bandwidth. you are basically a black hole to the attack, which cloudflare basically is.
- vlovich123 11mo agoThe biggest attacks literally come from botnets. There’s not a lot coming from infrastructure services precisely because these services are incentivized to shut that shit down. At most it would be used as the control plane which is how people attempt to shut down the botnets.
- kazen44 11mo agoalright, what you are proposing is kind of hard to do. Source routing is not easy, and source validations is even harder. and what prevents me, as a abuse hoster or "bad guy" from just announcing my own IP space directly on a transit or IXP? You might say, the IXP should do source checking aswell, but what if ipspace is distributed/anycasted across multiple ASN's/ on the IXP? Also, if you add multiple egress points distributed across different routing domains, it gets complicated fast. Does my transit upstream need to do source validation of my IP space? What about their upstream? Also, how would he know which IPspace belongs to which ASN's considering the allocation of ASN numbers and IP space is distributed across different organisations across the globe. (some of which are more malicious/non function than others[0]). Source routing becomes extremly complex because there is no single, universal mapping between IP space and ASN's they belong too. [0]https://afrinic.net/notice-for-termination-of-the-receivership-of-afrinic https://afrinic.net/notice-for-termination-of-the-receiversh...
- tethys 11mo agoThis incident has been resolved. Posted 4 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 19:28 UTC Better link for chroniclers, since the incident is now buried pretty far down on the status page: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7 https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7
- dang 11mo agoThanks! We've switched to that from https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/?t=1 https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/?t=1 at the top.
- crest 11mo agoOh the nuclear bomb proof network is unusable because someone sneezed over at Cloudflare.
- gorgoiler 11mo agoI would love to see a competition for the most banal thing that went wrong as a result of this. For example, I’m pretty sure the reason my IKEA locker wouldn’t latch shut was because the OS had hung while talking to a Cloudflare backend.
- yellow_cobra 11mo agoFunny enough, it happened on the same day that AWS CloudFront launched their flat-rate plans!
- dsamy 11mo agoTime to consider alternatives: https://x.com/GithubProjects/status/1990804801811329329 https://x.com/GithubProjects/status/1990804801811329329
- snoppy45 11mo agoI think you should give me a credit for all the income I lost due to this outage. Who authorized a change to the core infrastructure during the period of the year when your customers make the most income? Seriously, this is a management failure at the highest levels of decision-making. We don't make any changes to our server infrastructure/stack during the busiest time of the year, and neither should you. If there were an alternative to Cloudflare, I'd leave your service and move my systems elsewhere.
- Martcpp 11mo agodeny (clippy:: unwrap_used)
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- jeisc 11mo agois this the result of AI software improvements?
- AbstractH24 11mo agoIs it me, or do the outages of single points of failure for large swaths of the internet tend to cluster within weeks/days of one another? Anyone know why? Could be totally bias because one news story propels the next, so when they happen in clusters, you just hear about them more than when they don't.
- krbaccord94f 11mo agoCloudflare issue is due to latency in DDOS errors. >cups.servic >foomaticrip Form a [cerulean] type-font in the page-source.
- edbergavera 11mo agoI didn't think about the Cloudflare API, but we'll make sure to do it next time. Hopefully, it won't happen again. I want Cloudflare to delegate DNS control to an external provider so it's easy to disable/enable the CF proxy in case something like this happens.