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Cloudflare outage 11/18/2025

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First post, by DosFreak

Posted on 2025-11-18, 13:34

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https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/cloudflare- … -124208302.html

If you're experiencing internet issues this morning, you're far from alone. Infrastructure company Cloudflare has been hit with what it calls "widespread 500 errors, [with] Dashboard and API also failing." The company said that services are starting recover, but customers may continue to see "higher-than-normal errors rates" as it continues to investigate the problem.

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Reply 1 of 6, by AncapDude

Posted on 2025-11-18, 13:45

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Cloudflare is a real annoying plague. Hope they loose millions of customers now.

Reply 2 of 6, by MrFlibble

Posted on 2025-11-18, 14:02

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The main problem with Cloudflare, in my opinion, is that it does not allow the Wayback Machine to save pages -- instead of actual content the WM saves a generic "You're not supposed to be here" page, meaning that any website or forum that implements Cloudflare is potentially lost to history from the very moment it starts using it.

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Reply 3 of 6, by the3dfxdude

Posted on 2025-11-18, 17:52

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I see a problem with cloudflare, and similar services, is everyone depending on them for everything to work. If the trend continues, outages will get worse.

Reply 4 of 6, by AncapDude

Posted on 2025-11-18, 19:49

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Centralization of the Internet. More Single Point of failures arise. But at least it protects us from DDoS. Yeeey.

Reply 5 of 6, by Ozzuneoj

Posted on 2025-11-18, 20:28

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MrFlibble wrote on 2025-11-18, 14:02:

The main problem with Cloudflare, in my opinion, is that it does not allow the Wayback Machine to save pages -- instead of actual content the WM saves a generic "You're not supposed to be here" page, meaning that any website or forum that implements Cloudflare is potentially lost to history from the very moment it starts using it.

Bleh, I didn't know that. That is very unfortunate.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 6 of 6, by keenmaster486

Posted on 2025-11-18, 21:52

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Yeah the issue with Cloudflare is that it's such a great service, works so well, and they have so much capacity that it's far too tempting to make your site completely dependent on them, so when they go, half the internet goes with them.

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