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Cloudflare down: Websites such as X not working amid technical problems with the internet​

Andrew Griffin Tuesday 18 November 2025 11:58 GMT

Parts of the web appear to have stopped working amid a technical problem at Cloudflare.

Visitors to websites such as X, formerly known as Twitter, and film reviewing site Letterboxd saw an error message that indicated that Cloudflare problems meant that the page could not show.

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure that offers many of the core technologies that power today’s online experiences. That includes tools that protect websites from cyber attacks and ensure that they stay online amid heavy traffic, for instance.

“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers,” the company said in a new update. “Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.”

Tracking website Down Detector, which monitors outage, was also hit by the technical problems itself. But when it loaded it showed a dramatic spike in problems.

Affected users saw a message indicating there was an “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network”. It asked users to “please try again in a few minutes”.
 
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#dropkiwifarms? More like #dropcloudflare, noamsayin' muhfugguh bix nood. 7064206-e630b09298d7a45ce6d7cf4a737bda41.webp
 
Duane Dibbley said:
Who will get the blame for this? Russia? Or just a generic "line of code was at fault" like the recent AWS and Microsoft outtages?
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it’s probably a test run from the US gov directly , i wouldn’t be shocked if it goes down again this afternoon even if the Epstein vote wasn’t happening today they know people are being critical on the internet, wouldn’t surprise me if this was the beginning of a long term plan to decentralize the internet or get rid of social media at the very least
 
I got a "Cloudflare" challenge on Archive.today, but it's apparently not actually a Cloudflare one, just stylized to look like it, because it worked.
 
It happened before, now it happened again, and it will happen again in the future.
Because putting half the Internet behind the same man-in-the-middle is a smart move, apparently.
 
Shamino said:
Globohomo cant help but being hegemonically retarded. Welp
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You know, now that I have it my head I’ll grace you with it; The modern internet is built like a Hapsburg; It looks ugly, is propped up by “world leaders” and is based largely on 4 families of code porking each other into an ever-fucked gene pool. Even now there’s lingering damage from Google taking their short-lived social media section offline.
 
SpellforceFan said:
Close to zero. Any attacks would first go after infrastructure (power plants, water treatment facilities) and in USA nigger welfare, not cloudflare.
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Fair enough, but it's also why I qualified with "low-grade". If we were actually in a hot cyberwar, obviously the targets would change to more impactful targets. Same way the US could put full boots-on-the-ground in Ukraine, but doesn't in order to keep things a proxy war. MS, Amazon, and Cloudflare are important and large enough to be juicy proxy targets to flex muscle, but ultimately are not critical in the same way power and water infrastructure would be. Still fairly crippling though for certain segments of the Internet. Most likely is the Jeets, Occam's razor and whatnot.
 
Maybe this is why I couldn't access my bank app earlier? Somehow my bank knows I use a vpn. Blocked me from logging in. 15 minutes later they let me through.

Proton VPN is kinda ass.

I wonder if the two are related tho?
 
Has anyone else been getting the feeling lately, with this year in particular, that a lot of commercial websites have been coming under DDOS attack lately? Just a few weeks back there was another Cloudflare outage that coincided perfectly with our company's website going down. I learned later that we get out DDOS protection from another service, not Cloudflare, and that the DDOS service used to target our company had been hired to target other large corporations simultaneously.

I realize that, politically speaking, there's a lot going on right now and it would be unreasonable to expect a solution to the DDOS issue. At some point however, DDOS mitigation for the entire Internet should be viewed as a threat not only to the US economy but to our sovereignty as well, and I'm sure the up-and-coming generation of politicians that grew up with the Internet will think the same.

Vindeo said:
Proton VPN is kinda ass.
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I've been experiencing the same; practically any site I go to throws up Cloudflare checks in my face or throttles me to oblivion. Sometimes Google outright refuses to show me things until I hop nodes, but I remain more adamant about keeping my VPN on.
 
Timaeus Testified said:
Has anyone else been getting the feeling lately, with this year in particular, that a lot of commercial websites have been coming under DDOS attack lately? Just a few weeks back there was another Cloudflare outage that coincided perfectly with our company's website going down. I learned later that we get out DDOS protection from another service, not Cloudflare, and that the DDOS service used to target our company had been hired to target other large corporations simultaneously.

I realize that, politically speaking, there's a lot going on right now and it would be unreasonable to expect a solution to the DDOS issue. At some point however, DDOS mitigation for the entire Internet should be viewed as a threat not only to the US economy but to our sovereignty as well, and I'm sure the up-and-coming generation of politicians that grew up with the Internet will think the same.



I've been experiencing the same; practically any site I go to throws up Cloudflare checks in my face or throttles me to oblivion. Sometimes Google outright refuses to show me things until I hop nodes, but I remain more adamant about keeping my VPN on.
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It is hardly conspiracy theory territory. There is an entire DDoS for hire crime network around and cloudflare is basically a catch 22 situation where it incentivizes these fuckers, protects them and sells the service to stop them working.

Cybercriminals know they can DDoS the fuck out of shit for a few hundred or thousand dollars (or for free if they have their own botnet, minus whatever their time is worth) and extort companies into paying for it - even if they attack 100 and 1 company pays $1 million USD then they've made a serious amount of money vs what the cost was to launch the attack.

edit: also DDoS attackers have historically been able to get away with murder. I can't recall that many of them being identified or even have criminal charges thrown against them. Sure there are a few who have been arrested but by and large DDoS attacks are something da local police station/jerkops have no idea of how to deal with - they come from the internet and don't exist physically, so what is a police officer in fucking minnesota supposed to do about a finnish cybercriminal? nothin.
 
IamnottheNSA said:
It happened before, now it happened again, and it will happen again in the future.
Because putting half the Internet behind the same man-in-the-middle is a smart move, apparently.
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That man in the middle is now either an indian or AI code. I'll start building a bunker just in case.
 
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