Massive Cloudflare Outage Causes Global Disruptions Across the Internet

A major Cloudflare outage has been reported worldwide, causing widespread disruptions across websites, applications, APIs, and online services. According to Downdetector data, problem reports spiked dramatically, indicating a sudden and massive system failure affecting millions of users globally.

Cloudflare, one of the largest CDN (Content Delivery Network) and DNS providers, plays a critical role in keeping websites online and loading quickly. When Cloudflare experiences downtime, thousands of websites relying on its infrastructure become slow or completely inaccessible. Today's outage appears to be one of the most significant spikes in recent months, affecting a wide range of platforms powered by Cloudflare’s network.

Reports began flooding in around midday, rapidly climbing from near-zero to several thousand in minutes. This type of surge typically indicates a systemic issue affecting Cloudflare’s global infrastructure or one of its core services, such as DNS or routing.

While the exact cause of the outage is still unclear, the impact is already visible: users have reported problems accessing websites, logging into online apps, loading dashboards, and processing API requests. Ecommerce sites, SaaS apps, hosting providers, and other platforms depending on Cloudflare’s reverse proxy and firewall services were also affected.

Cloudflare has acknowledged major incidents in the past caused by software bugs, configuration issues, or routing problems. Many users are now waiting for an official statement as the outage continues to develop.

Businesses relying on Cloudflare should monitor updates through Cloudflare’s system status page and prepare for temporary instability. Until the issue is resolved, slower performance or complete unavailability may continue across affected services.

🚨 Cloudflare Global Network Issue
Cloudflare has confirmed they’re investigating a global problem affecting multiple customers.
Services may load slowly or become unavailable until the issue is resolved.

🔍 Status update (11:48 UTC): Issue is under investigation — more details coming soon.

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