Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
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Nov 18, 2025 - 12:21 UTC
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Nov 18, 2025 - 12:03 UTC
Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing.
We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.
Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC
@MannDude said:
This happens pretty much two or three times a year. Even the big dogs (See AWS outage a month or so ago) have issues.
Even Bikegremlin had a short downtime! LOL
Things break down, it's all normal.
Though, when CF goes down, half of the whole Net seems to go down with it.
This just shows how bad things are when a huge chunk of the internet relies on a single corporation.
If LetsEncrypt went down for a couple weeks, man, it'd be almost like this service built to be resillient with outages didn't evne matter anymore because people chose comfort over ability.
@MannDude said:
This happens pretty much two or three times a year. Even the big dogs (See AWS outage a month or so ago) have issues.
Even Bikegremlin had a short downtime! LOL
Things break down, it's all normal.
Though, when CF goes down, half of the whole Net seems to go down with it.
This just shows how bad things are when a huge chunk of the internet relies on a single corporation.
If LetsEncrypt went down for a couple weeks, man, it'd be almost like this service built to be resillient with outages didn't evne matter anymore because people chose comfort over ability.
True. Yet LetsEncrypt became popular due to Google warning people of insecure websites. Chrome shoved SSL down consumer's throat, even though many websites don't even handle sensitive information to even worry about open networks or "man in the middle". In my opinion LetsEncrypt became popular simply because out of nowhere was required some SSL, even for websites that did not even have a login page.
I reserve the right to license all of my content under: CC BY-NC-ND. Whatever happens on this forum should stay on this forum.
@MannDude said:
This happens pretty much two or three times a year. Even the big dogs (See AWS outage a month or so ago) have issues.
Even Bikegremlin had a short downtime! LOL
Things break down, it's all normal.
Though, when CF goes down, half of the whole Net seems to go down with it.
This just shows how bad things are when a huge chunk of the internet relies on a single corporation.
If LetsEncrypt went down for a couple weeks, man, it'd be almost like this service built to be resillient with outages didn't evne matter anymore because people chose comfort over ability.
True. Yet LetsEncrypt became popular due to Google warning people of insecure websites. Chrome shoved SSL down consumer's throat, even though many websites don't even handle sensitive information to even worry about open networks or "man in the middle". In my opinion LetsEncrypt became popular simply because out of nowhere was required some SSL, even for websites that did not even have a login page.
Yup - it was practically forced upon users and webmasters alike - by Google (one, huge corporation).
@MannDude said:
This happens pretty much two or three times a year. Even the big dogs (See AWS outage a month or so ago) have issues.
Even Bikegremlin had a short downtime! LOL
Things break down, it's all normal.
Though, when CF goes down, half of the whole Net seems to go down with it.
This just shows how bad things are when a huge chunk of the internet relies on a single corporation.
If LetsEncrypt went down for a couple weeks, man, it'd be almost like this service built to be resillient with outages didn't evne matter anymore because people chose comfort over ability.
True. Yet LetsEncrypt became popular due to Google warning people of insecure websites. Chrome shoved SSL down consumer's throat, even though many websites don't even handle sensitive information to even worry about open networks or "man in the middle". In my opinion LetsEncrypt became popular simply because out of nowhere was required some SSL, even for websites that did not even have a login page.
Yup - it was practically forced upon users and webmasters alike - by Google (one, huge corporation).
..and now Google is making people renew certificates roughly every 45 days instead of 90 by 2019. Because they can.
@MannDude said:
This happens pretty much two or three times a year. Even the big dogs (See AWS outage a month or so ago) have issues.
Even Bikegremlin had a short downtime! LOL
Things break down, it's all normal.
Though, when CF goes down, half of the whole Net seems to go down with it.
This just shows how bad things are when a huge chunk of the internet relies on a single corporation.
If LetsEncrypt went down for a couple weeks, man, it'd be almost like this service built to be resillient with outages didn't evne matter anymore because people chose comfort over ability.
True. Yet LetsEncrypt became popular due to Google warning people of insecure websites. Chrome shoved SSL down consumer's throat, even though many websites don't even handle sensitive information to even worry about open networks or "man in the middle". In my opinion LetsEncrypt became popular simply because out of nowhere was required some SSL, even for websites that did not even have a login page.
Yup - it was practically forced upon users and webmasters alike - by Google (one, huge corporation).
..and now Google is making people renew certificates roughly every 45 days instead of 90 by 2019. Because they can.
Well, we're the ones who gave them the power. Now they will feed us AI logic in support chat so we can't even protest. We did it to ourselves. They falsely advertised a problem, so they can sell us the solution - and we took it. Every year more and more control goes to the few corporations.
@MannDude said:
This happens pretty much two or three times a year. Even the big dogs (See AWS outage a month or so ago) have issues.
Even Bikegremlin had a short downtime! LOL
Things break down, it's all normal.
Though, when CF goes down, half of the whole Net seems to go down with it.
This just shows how bad things are when a huge chunk of the internet relies on a single corporation.
If LetsEncrypt went down for a couple weeks, man, it'd be almost like this service built to be resillient with outages didn't evne matter anymore because people chose comfort over ability.
True. Yet LetsEncrypt became popular due to Google warning people of insecure websites. Chrome shoved SSL down consumer's throat, even though many websites don't even handle sensitive information to even worry about open networks or "man in the middle". In my opinion LetsEncrypt became popular simply because out of nowhere was required some SSL, even for websites that did not even have a login page.
Yup - it was practically forced upon users and webmasters alike - by Google (one, huge corporation).
..and now Google is making people renew certificates roughly every 45 days instead of 90 by 2019. Because they can.
Well, we're the ones who gave them the power. Now they will feed us AI logic in support chat so we can't even protest. We did it to ourselves. They falsely advertised a problem, so they can sell us the solution - and we took it. Every year more and more control goes to the few corporations.
Techincally incorrect "normies" gave them this power. Once they invaded the internet with their bologna this place went to crap.
I got no idea how you guys are browsing LES as cloudflare singapore was down and so was LES, which is behind the cloudflare proxy...
If you want information, feign ignorance reply with the wrong answer. Internet people will correct you ASAP!
It’s OK if you disagree with me. I can’t force you to be right!
@somik said:
I got no idea how you guys are browsing LES as cloudflare singapore was down and so was LES, which is behind the cloudflare proxy...
Eh come again?
Not today, yesterday when the thread was opened. Could not open LES. Was getting cloudflare 500 error.
If you want information, feign ignorance reply with the wrong answer. Internet people will correct you ASAP!
It’s OK if you disagree with me. I can’t force you to be right!
@somik said:
I got no idea how you guys are browsing LES as cloudflare singapore was down and so was LES, which is behind the cloudflare proxy...
Eh come again?
Not today, yesterday when the thread was opened. Could not open LES. Was getting cloudflare 500 error.
eh? what? LES never dies!!!
LES did die, because Cloudflare died, but was resuscitated. We have these admins here on LES who just can't ditch Cloudflare. Maybe @Mason and @mikho consider that LES really needs Cloudflare for some reason.
I reserve the right to license all of my content under: CC BY-NC-ND. Whatever happens on this forum should stay on this forum.
@somik said:
I got no idea how you guys are browsing LES as cloudflare singapore was down and so was LES, which is behind the cloudflare proxy...
Eh come again?
Not today, yesterday when the thread was opened. Could not open LES. Was getting cloudflare 500 error.
eh? what? LES never dies!!!
LES did die, because Cloudflare died, but was resuscitated. We have these admins here on LES who just can't ditch Cloudflare. Maybe @Mason and @mikho consider that LES really needs Cloudflare for some reason.
Didn't die for me so I don't know what you are on about here. It is ETERNAL!!!
On another note apparently stores use cloudflare as well and it messed up their little card machines pretty good yesterday. At least the ones where I live anyways. Was a gamble all day if you could get gas and what not lol. Machines working about 1/4 of the time.
On another note apparently stores use cloudflare as well and it messed up their little card machines pretty good yesterday. At least the ones where I live anyways. Was a gamble all day if you could get gas and what not lol. Machines working about 1/4 of the time.
Lol, okay that I didn't expect. Why would a gas pump need cloudflare ?
On another note apparently stores use cloudflare as well and it messed up their little card machines pretty good yesterday. At least the ones where I live anyways. Was a gamble all day if you could get gas and what not lol. Machines working about 1/4 of the time.
Lol, okay that I didn't expect. Why would a gas pump need cloudflare ?
Evidently their payement processors run off the internet and cloudflare is in the way. Was havoc for awhile around here even the stores were glitching like noodles boiling over lol.
On another note apparently stores use cloudflare as well and it messed up their little card machines pretty good yesterday. At least the ones where I live anyways. Was a gamble all day if you could get gas and what not lol. Machines working about 1/4 of the time.
Lol, okay that I didn't expect. Why would a gas pump need cloudflare ?
Evidently their payement processors run off the internet and cloudflare is in the way. Was havoc for awhile around here even the stores were glitching like noodles boiling over lol.
So if Cloudflare, Amazon and Google will go down, all hell will break loose.
I reserve the right to license all of my content under: CC BY-NC-ND. Whatever happens on this forum should stay on this forum.
On another note apparently stores use cloudflare as well and it messed up their little card machines pretty good yesterday. At least the ones where I live anyways. Was a gamble all day if you could get gas and what not lol. Machines working about 1/4 of the time.
Lol, okay that I didn't expect. Why would a gas pump need cloudflare ?
Evidently their payement processors run off the internet and cloudflare is in the way. Was havoc for awhile around here even the stores were glitching like noodles boiling over lol.
So if Cloudflare, Amazon and Google will go down, all hell will break loose.
Tell the truth won't even take those ones going down Cogent has a bad day and blip it is gone.
@somik said:
I got no idea how you guys are browsing LES as cloudflare singapore was down and so was LES, which is behind the cloudflare proxy...
Eh come again?
Not today, yesterday when the thread was opened. Could not open LES. Was getting cloudflare 500 error.
eh? what? LES never dies!!!
LES did die, because Cloudflare died, but was resuscitated. We have these admins here on LES who just can't ditch Cloudflare. Maybe @Mason and @mikho consider that LES really needs Cloudflare for some reason.
Sucks when it happens like that, but the other 99.99% of the time it's flawless.
Find me an alternative that works just as well as CF with similar or better uptime and I'll consider switching. The internet is a dirty place and CF gives out free condoms... so I'm wrapping it up!
@somik said:
I got no idea how you guys are browsing LES as cloudflare singapore was down and so was LES, which is behind the cloudflare proxy...
Eh come again?
Not today, yesterday when the thread was opened. Could not open LES. Was getting cloudflare 500 error.
eh? what? LES never dies!!!
LES did die, because Cloudflare died, but was resuscitated. We have these admins here on LES who just can't ditch Cloudflare. Maybe @Mason and @mikho consider that LES really needs Cloudflare for some reason.
Sucks when it happens like that, but the other 99.99% of the time it's flawless.
Find me an alternative that works just as well as CF with similar or better uptime and I'll consider switching. The internet is a dirty place and CF gives out free condoms... so I'm wrapping it up!
All you have to do is just look at the provider polls. Some ideas: NameCrane, Servarica, Gigahost. You can also go with big providers, such as Hetzner.
If you really want a content delivery network (even though LES might not actually need one) but if you really and absolutely want one, I am sure BunnyCDN can come up with a small solution, especially since Black Friday is right around the corner. You can even put their small logo in the footer of this forum for your peace of mind and maybe get it for free. But I honestly believe this forum does not need a CDN.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I don't like using condoms. I personally prefer other ways of protection.
I reserve the right to license all of my content under: CC BY-NC-ND. Whatever happens on this forum should stay on this forum.
@somik said:
I got no idea how you guys are browsing LES as cloudflare singapore was down and so was LES, which is behind the cloudflare proxy...
Eh come again?
Not today, yesterday when the thread was opened. Could not open LES. Was getting cloudflare 500 error.
eh? what? LES never dies!!!
LES did die, because Cloudflare died, but was resuscitated. We have these admins here on LES who just can't ditch Cloudflare. Maybe @Mason and @mikho consider that LES really needs Cloudflare for some reason.
Sucks when it happens like that, but the other 99.99% of the time it's flawless.
Find me an alternative that works just as well as CF with similar or better uptime and I'll consider switching. The internet is a dirty place and CF gives out free condoms... so I'm wrapping it up!
All you have to do is just look at the provider polls. Some ideas: NameCrane, Servarica, Gigahost. You can also go with big providers, such as Hetzner.
If you really want a content delivery network (even though LES might not actually need one) but if you really and absolutely want one, I am sure BunnyCDN can come up with a small solution, especially since Black Friday is right around the corner. You can even put their small logo in the footer of this forum for your peace of mind and maybe get it for free. But I honestly believe this forum does not need a CDN.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I don't like using condoms. I personally prefer other ways of protection.
CF is more than just CDN (LES isn't trying to sell stuff before you can think so that one second longer page load time makes anyone worried).
It's also more than just a firewall.
Especially around Black Friday madness thread(s). LOL
It isn't perfect, but even with a very high budget (and good experts for hire), I don't think we'd be able to get the same quality with alternative systems (and I also doubt we'd have the same, not to mention better uptime).
Of course, those poor sobs at CF decrypt all the packets and must watch all the sexy pigeon pics I DM to @AuroraZero - but they chose such career, I didn't force 'em...
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Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Nov 18, 2025 - 12:21 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Nov 18, 2025 - 12:03 UTC
Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing.
We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.
Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC
This happens pretty much two or three times a year. Even the big dogs (See AWS outage a month or so ago) have issues.
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Even Bikegremlin had a short downtime! LOL
Things break down, it's all normal.
Though, when CF goes down, half of the whole Net seems to go down with it.
🔧 BikeGremlin guides & resources
This just shows how bad things are when a huge chunk of the internet relies on a single corporation.
I reserve the right to license all of my content under: CC BY-NC-ND. Whatever happens on this forum should stay on this forum.
If LetsEncrypt went down for a couple weeks, man, it'd be almost like this service built to be resillient with outages didn't evne matter anymore because people chose comfort over ability.
My pronouns are like/subscribe.
True. Yet LetsEncrypt became popular due to Google warning people of insecure websites. Chrome shoved SSL down consumer's throat, even though many websites don't even handle sensitive information to even worry about open networks or "man in the middle". In my opinion LetsEncrypt became popular simply because out of nowhere was required some SSL, even for websites that did not even have a login page.
I reserve the right to license all of my content under: CC BY-NC-ND. Whatever happens on this forum should stay on this forum.
Yup - it was practically forced upon users and webmasters alike - by Google (one, huge corporation).
🔧 BikeGremlin guides & resources
No practically to it man.
our sites are down too
Shhhhh just pay and don't make waves!!!!
I reserve the right to license all of my content under: CC BY-NC-ND. Whatever happens on this forum should stay on this forum.
..and now Google is making people renew certificates roughly every 45 days instead of 90 by 2019. Because they can.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ssl-tls-certificate-lifespans-reduced-to-47-days-by-2029/
My pronouns are like/subscribe.
Well, we're the ones who gave them the power. Now they will feed us AI logic in support chat so we can't even protest. We did it to ourselves. They falsely advertised a problem, so they can sell us the solution - and we took it. Every year more and more control goes to the few corporations.
I reserve the right to license all of my content under: CC BY-NC-ND. Whatever happens on this forum should stay on this forum.
Techincally incorrect "normies" gave them this power. Once they invaded the internet with their bologna this place went to crap.
I am waiting for the projected/predicted multi day blackout caused by intense solar storms.
Everything will be down.
Keeping a reading list ready.
blog | exploring visually |
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
It appears to be Gemini 3Skynet's first awakening, but it failed.
I got no idea how you guys are browsing LES as cloudflare singapore was down and so was LES, which is behind the cloudflare proxy...
If you want information, feign ignorance reply with the wrong answer. Internet people will correct you ASAP!
It’s OK if you disagree with me. I can’t force you to be right!
Eh come again?
Not today, yesterday when the thread was opened. Could not open LES. Was getting cloudflare 500 error.
If you want information, feign ignorance reply with the wrong answer. Internet people will correct you ASAP!
It’s OK if you disagree with me. I can’t force you to be right!
eh? what? LES never dies!!!
LES did die, because Cloudflare died, but was resuscitated. We have these admins here on LES who just can't ditch Cloudflare. Maybe @Mason and @mikho consider that LES really needs Cloudflare for some reason.
I reserve the right to license all of my content under: CC BY-NC-ND. Whatever happens on this forum should stay on this forum.
Cloudflare is the best of internet.
No reason to ditch.
Didn't die for me so I don't know what you are on about here. It is ETERNAL!!!
On another note apparently stores use cloudflare as well and it messed up their little card machines pretty good yesterday. At least the ones where I live anyways. Was a gamble all day if you could get gas and what not lol. Machines working about 1/4 of the time.
Lol, okay that I didn't expect. Why would a gas pump need cloudflare ?
Evidently their payement processors run off the internet and cloudflare is in the way. Was havoc for awhile around here even the stores were glitching like noodles boiling over lol.
So if Cloudflare, Amazon and Google will go down, all hell will break loose.
I reserve the right to license all of my content under: CC BY-NC-ND. Whatever happens on this forum should stay on this forum.
Tell the truth won't even take those ones going down Cogent has a bad day and blip it is gone.
Sucks when it happens like that, but the other 99.99% of the time it's flawless.
Find me an alternative that works just as well as CF with similar or better uptime and I'll consider switching. The internet is a dirty place and CF gives out free condoms... so I'm wrapping it up!
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All you have to do is just look at the provider polls. Some ideas: NameCrane, Servarica, Gigahost. You can also go with big providers, such as Hetzner.
If you really want a content delivery network (even though LES might not actually need one) but if you really and absolutely want one, I am sure BunnyCDN can come up with a small solution, especially since Black Friday is right around the corner. You can even put their small logo in the footer of this forum for your peace of mind and maybe get it for free. But I honestly believe this forum does not need a CDN.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I don't like using condoms. I personally prefer other ways of protection.
I reserve the right to license all of my content under: CC BY-NC-ND. Whatever happens on this forum should stay on this forum.
CF is more than just CDN (LES isn't trying to sell stuff before you can think so that one second longer page load time makes anyone worried).
It's also more than just a firewall.
Especially around Black Friday madness thread(s). LOL
It isn't perfect, but even with a very high budget (and good experts for hire), I don't think we'd be able to get the same quality with alternative systems (and I also doubt we'd have the same, not to mention better uptime).
Of course, those poor sobs at CF decrypt all the packets and must watch all the sexy pigeon pics I DM to @AuroraZero - but they chose such career, I didn't force 'em...
🔧 BikeGremlin guides & resources