Cloudflare down for several users globally; OpenAI, Perplexity among websites affected

Cloudflare down for several users globally; OpenAI, Perplexity among websites affected

By Hindustan Times
Publication Date: 2025-11-18 12:13:00

Updated on: Nov 18, 2025 05:56 pm IST

Cloudflare suffered an outage on Tuesday.

Cloudflare suffered an outage on Tuesday, disrupting services for thousands of users across websites that rely on the company’s network infrastructure.

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“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,” said Cloudflare in a statement.

Open AI, Perplexity, Chat GPT, X and Gemini are some of the websites affected by the outage.