HACKER Q&A
📣 break_the_bank

Cloudflare is down. How does this affect you?


Trying to do some research on different table/grid providers and CloudFlare seems to be down.

It has taken down Twitter, my Blog and a lot of other landing pages that I am trying to visit.


  👤 acomjean Accepted Answer ✓
The non profit I volunteer at is unreachable. It gives a cloudflare error page. Another source of failure.

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.


👤 pstation
Cloudflare'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.


👤 mak8
It took supabase and X down for me

👤 r721
>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


👤 break_the_bank
Update: It seems to be back, the downtime lasted maybe 5-6 minutes

👤 wolfgx
I was using Cloudflare WARP; had to turn it off to access most of the websites i visit daily.

👤 polisaez
From the Cloudflare status website: "Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress." Maybe something went wrong while doing maintenance?

👤 mrintegrity
It would have been ironic had this https://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/salesguy.html been hosted behind cloudflare.

👤 techguy1954
ChatGPT and Perplexity AI are down, I was just about to try and use ChatGPT.

👤 Filligree
It'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.


👤 techguy1954
It 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.


👤 imdsm
Internet is down, I guess I'll just look out of the window for a bit

👤 oxy1tumn
Took down both Twitter and Rateyourmusic. This is a targetted attack against me specifically and nobody else

👤 hirako2000
Not affected using tunnels, CDNs.

it's probably related to the recent ddos attacks they helped mitigating.


👤 techguy1954
Keeps going up and down for me, I cant access DownDetector to check. The first website I noticed it on was Blender Artists.

👤 vednig
all the captcha's are also not working

👤 pavo-etc
Saw cloudflare go down before my very eyes on colonist.io in Australia

👤 pySilver
Our company is loosing money with every second of downtime.

👤 rulehard
pretty much just my twitter usage as of now. my sites dont use cloudflare

👤 robotfelix
Back up for me now

Edit: and then back down again


👤 Dennip
Still down for me

👤 Mike1122
All my websites are down due to Cloudflare

👤 diimdeep
80% of web sites I visited in last 15 minutes are not available anymore, LOL

👤 ndsipa_pomu
I was trying to look up banana-based 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.


👤 lucabrekkav
it comes back up now

👤 palmeida
Just now it was acknowledge in the status page.

👤 ArvindRSingh
Using Cloudflare is a tradeoff between facing DDoS and other attacks, and the downtime of Cloudflare.

👤 raghava
Most 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.



👤 codeaholicguy
Yes, it impacted our services https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

👤 yaratixal
It’s down worldwide practically, in the US,UK,NZ,AU

👤 endoacustica
Same problem here in Italy. Website up and down again.

👤 oxy1tumn
Update: Cloudflare has announced they will be sacrificing their CEO at the alter in penance

👤 rgreekguy
Unfortunately it does not. Somehow these issues never affect me or my work. It's horrible (for the latter part, obviously).

👤 endoacustica
Right now is working in Italy: https://www.endoacustica.com/ I hope will be not down again.