Internet services, apps go down as Cloudflare suffers major outage
2025-11-18 23:35
Chaos hit the internet this morning when Cloudflare broke at the worst possible time and dragged huge platforms down with it. The outage first began around 6:00 AM ET, when the company’s support portal provider started “experiencing issues,” according to what Cloudflare posted on its own status page. The timing lined up with a planned maintenance window at the company’s SCL (Santiago) data center, but Cloudflare didn’t say that this was the cause. What users saw was simple: pages failed, feeds wouldn’t load, and error screens took over the internet. Tracking outages across major platforms caused by Cloudflare The platforms hit were big names. People on X complained they could not refresh posts. Gamers trying to play League of Legends or Valorant saw reports pile up on downdetector. Even the Cloudflare status page itself began breaking down around 7:03 AM ET, losing its CSS styling while the company said its...
