By Gandharv Walia
Publication Date: 2025-11-18 13:10:00
Cloudfare down? Cloudflare outage hits these major platforms
Cloudflare outage hits these major platforms and creates major disruption across many websites and apps. Users start reporting issues around 11 AM. Many cannot load X, ChatGPT, Spotify, Canva, Perplexity and other platforms. Reports cross thousands on Downdetector by evening. The outage appears linked to Cloudflare, which supports a wide range of sites with traffic management and security tools.
Cloudflare provides a backbone layer for many platforms. It manages DNS services and content delivery. It protects websites from DDoS attacks and keeps them stable during heavy traffic. A disruption in Cloudflare impacts multiple unrelated websites at the same time. The company confirms widespread 500 errors on its network and failures on its dashboard and API.
Cloudflare shares updates stating that it is still investigating the issue. It says that more information will be provided as soon as it understands the full impact. Many popular websites depend on Cloudflare,…