A major global outage at Cloudflare has caused thousands of websites and online services to go offline today, disrupting users and businesses worldwide. Cloudflare, one of the largest internet infrastructure and security providers, experienced a widespread issue that affected domains relying on its network.
Early reports indicate that Cloudflare’s network edge — responsible for routing and protecting global traffic — suffered a system failure. This caused major slowdowns, error messages, and complete outages for many popular websites.
Users reported errors like:
“500 Internal Server Error”
“Connection timed out”
“Website unavailable due to network issue”
The outage impacted a wide range of online services, including: Canva, X, ChatGPT, Spotify
Major tech platforms
E-commerce sites
SaaS applications
Gaming platforms
News portals
Any website using Cloudflare’s CDN, DNS, or security services felt the hit.
Cloudflare's Response
Cloudflare acknowledged the issue and confirmed that engineers were actively working to restore services. According to their status updates, the outage was linked to a network configuration issue rolled out globally.
Services Slowly Returning
As of now, many websites are gradually coming back online, but some users may still experience intermittent issues while Cloudflare fully stabilizes the network.
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