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I've been operating a relatively small digital platform for 15 years. We don't use Cloudflare, for bots, we use tirreno (1), which we specifically created to filter malicious traffic.

For hosting, we use a local and sovereign EU provider.

If tomorrow Cloudflare, Amazon, and Microsoft were to somehow disappear or go permanently down, I wouldn't even notice.

1. https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno

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balupton

14 minutes ago

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If all you use them for is caching, then they could provide webhooks for their scheduled maintenance so customers can disable cloudflare during the maintenance and reenable it once it's all good.

However, for customers using other things, perhaps we need an independent cloudflare for cloudflare service that serves its own cache of your site when cloudflare is inaccessible.

Could combine the two ideas so when there is scheduled cloudflare maintenance, it switches dns to the cloudflare for cloudflare service that uses cloudflare if online but if cloudflare is offline then serves cache, and once cloudflare maintenance is finished then restore cloudflare dns.

Plex, Plexamp, and accounts in Sonos went down.

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Eldodi

17 minutes ago

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How crazy is it that Lime bikes become unusable if Cloudflare goes down? I hope Waymos are not on cloudflare

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saretup

15 minutes ago

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If Waymos do not use local models it would be a horrible decision.

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hyperbolablabla

16 minutes ago

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Seems incredibly irresponsible if you ask me...

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jakewins

56 minutes ago

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Better link: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q

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ponys

28 minutes ago

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This happening exactly when the ticket sale for Evanescence was happening, in which the payment method was hosted on Cloudflare was really funny,

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TACIXAT

34 minutes ago

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Chess dot com was affected, I got a Cloudflare internal server error at the end of one of my matches.

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stacktrace

29 minutes ago

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Will you consider it a stalemate if no party is able to make any further moves?

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manojlds

17 minutes ago

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Btw a Chess Olympiad was declared drawn and shared winners after internet issues.

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TACIXAT

21 minutes ago

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I would have probably considered whoever was up material as the winner, as long at there was sufficient time left.

I guess it had an active connection through the game end though, maybe web sockets. I was afraid it wasn't recorded because I played quite well!

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nurettin

25 minutes ago

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There are actual rules for stalemate, so it would probably just be a draw.

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reassess_blind

23 minutes ago

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Probably an abort. Draw awards Elo.

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dwayne_dibley

17 minutes ago

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hahaha, this is how I found out too!

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Akronymus

53 minutes ago

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dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191

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nsiradze

22 minutes ago

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This needs to be changed, whole web was stopped working - it's a big responsibility and Cloudflare should acknowledge it.

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willsmith72

55 minutes ago

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including downdetector... that's annoying https://downdetector.com/status/npm/

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philipp-gayret

51 minutes ago

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And https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com says that https://downdetector.com/ is up! >:( What a world we live in

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phito

43 minutes ago

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and https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com is down

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tomudding

40 minutes ago

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which is at least detected by https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector....

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frizlab

31 minutes ago

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I really expected that one to be a joke

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nolok

32 minutes ago

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Good god, what have we done ...

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nurettin

28 minutes ago

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This is now my favorite post on HN

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cyanydeez

33 minutes ago

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Turtles!(Expletive!)

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KptMarchewa

33 minutes ago

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https://updog.ai/status/cloudflare works.

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nickdothutton

19 minutes ago

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Complexity is the enemy of availability (and security, and a few more things besides).

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gblargg

18 minutes ago

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Maybe some company could start up that had decentralized backups/mirrors/caches of websites in case cloudflare goes down...

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rohannn

36 minutes ago

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Is perplexity down too as a result of this? Seeing mixed reports

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pietz

35 minutes ago

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It means half of the internet isn't (wasn't) working.

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rodwyersoftware

17 minutes ago

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HB1 in action

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jansan

17 minutes ago

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Looks like this time they first considered that they screwed up themselves, unlike the last time when they were fighting a phantom attack for a while until they realized that it was their own fault.

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rifycombine1

32 minutes ago

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Gitlab is affected as well :(

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Morizero

29 minutes ago

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Yeah affected me too. I have code to push dang it!!!

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programmexxx

19 minutes ago

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why tinyurl.com was down...

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santiagobasulto

39 minutes ago

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Docker Hub is affected as well

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gem4508

37 minutes ago

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LinkedIn was also affected.

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andrewl-hn

13 minutes ago

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You would think they would use Azure for CDN, but apparently not.

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georgestrakhov

40 minutes ago

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we are back up I think

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alexander2002

35 minutes ago

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Am I tripping cuz I saw this a while ago

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Buttons840

28 minutes ago

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You remember correctly: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

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sammy2255

34 minutes ago

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Im thinking the same thing..

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yapyap

41 minutes ago

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Hm, it’s over.

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swagmoose

20 minutes ago

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who else was woken up in the middle of the night for on-call pages because of cloudflare?

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rzmmm

21 minutes ago

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Another Option::unwrap incident perchance?

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mhovd

40 minutes ago

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And now it is back up

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darkamaul

29 minutes ago

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According to UpDog [0], the incident only lasted 35 minutes (8:40 - 9:15). And the Cloudflare status page seems to validate this timeline.

While down times are not ideal, that's quite an impressive achievement to be able to resolve an incident of this scale in minutes - not hours.

[0]: https://updog.ai/status/cloudflare

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rvba

16 minutes ago

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They probably jusr reverted last change?

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antonvs

22 minutes ago

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> “only” lasted 35 minutes

That single incident drops their uptime to four nines. Combine it with other recent incidents and they’re probably at three nines. That’s amateur level.

> that's quite an impressive achievement

No it isn’t. Good grief.

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gowthamgts12

27 minutes ago

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it affected CDN services as well, i don't know or understand why that's not mentioned in the status page.

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powerpixel

26 minutes ago

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Having this kind of outage on a friday after what happened last month though is not a good thing... Props to them for getting back up so quickly but come on, these kinds of outages were not a thing a while back.