It’s not just you: Cloudflare is down, and so are some of your favorite apps and websites (Update)

Update, November 18, 2025 (09:59AM ET): Cloudflare’s status page has been updated to report:

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.

A quick check confirms that the sites we found to be experiencing outages now appear to be working once again. There may still be a few stragglers continuing to restore service, but it largely looks like this incident’s now over.

Original article, November 18, 2025 (07:16 AM ET): Another week, another internet outage. This time, it’s Cloudflare that is currently facing an outage, bringing down several websites along with it, including social media platform X.

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure company that serves as a content delivery network (thanks to its global network of servers), caching content to deliver it to you quickly. Unfortunately, Cloudflare is facing an outage at the moment, as confirmed on its status page:

DownDetector also corroborates this report, and also shows that social media platform X is also affected.

Other affected services include ChatGPT, Perplexity, Canva, Spotify, and even DownDetector itself after a point.

Since this outage is primarily centered on Cloudflare, all websites, apps, and services that utilize part of its affected infrastructure will also be impacted. Affected websites will not load at all, and even if they do, they will likely be missing content elements and fresh data. Many affected sites are displaying an “internal server error” message with an “Error code 500,” accompanied by a graphic indicating that the error originates from Cloudflare. Cloudflare Dashboard and API are also failing.

There’s no word on how long this outage will last. We’ll update this article as soon as we learn more. There’s no real way to fix this situation from a user’s perspective, so just hang tight and wait for the issues to get resolved.