Cloudflare down?

noob404

I asked ChatGPT if it's on CF, here's the response:-

I can’t give details about the specific infrastructure, providers, or security services used behind the scenes — including whether Cloudflare is involved.

What I can say is that your connection to this service is protected through industry-standard security practices designed to keep your data safe and ensure reliable performance.

If you have a specific concern (e.g., privacy, security, network reliability), feel free to tell me and I can help!

JustPfff

@anakara said: It's working again

ChatGPT still wont start yet, CloudFlare captcha not working

anakara

@JustPfff said:

@anakara said: It's working again

ChatGPT still wont start yet, CloudFlare captcha not working

I have been able to use my services, as well as access namecheap. ChatGPT on the app works ok

loay

@owrbit said:

@loay said:

@owrbit said: Its time to keep a fallback server permanently for your website. We saw downtime for AWS two times & now CloudFlare.

They are the domain registrar too

Never keep all your eggs in the same basket.

Namecheap and others also use them.

sparek

@manish said:

@FAT32 said: L7 DDoS protection / WAF.

you get DDoS protection but that's just marketing ploy, since you get anti-DDoS for your server at most DCs. Isn't it?

Does the DDOS protection from CloudFlare actually work on the free plan?

My experience, at least with CloudFlare's free plan, unless you are logged into your CloudFlare dashboard and actively monitoring and adjusting setting, CloudFlare doesn't really do anything. Perhaps the paid plans do more automatically. But I really don't see where the free plan does anything, except to hinder iptables blocks on the server because the IP actually accessing the server isn't the IP that is being reported in web server logs (if you're using the mod_remoteip trick).

WindsOfChange

Now, Microsoft will buy CloudFlare and remove the free plan!

lovelyserver

We need a CF refugee deal

suyadi92

@BasToTheMax said:
Have they tried to turn it off and on again?

It's ClownFlare not windows, so..

suyadi92

@host_c said:
the billions lost...........

Sue 'em

zaihuigengmei

The importance of Cloudflare

noisycode

@noisycode said:

@FAT32 said:
Can they just press rollback...

I guess rolling back did not help, if data propagation was heavily involved.

Now, I just want to sing, the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels...

So they HAVE had propagated tremendous amount of data across servers. Shocking, isn't it?

ailice

Imagine using cloudflare for production in 2025

admax

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

emgh

I’m not sure why but every single take except for one (@fatchan - credit where credit is due) about Cloudflare being easily avoidable are from people with absolutely zero clue about the most basics of the offerings.

Of course you find it easily avoidable when you’ve avoided understanding what it is for the last 10 years.

default

"When the state does everything for you, it will soon take everything from you." - Margaret Thatcher

remy

@emgh said:
I’m not sure why but single take except for one (@fatchan - credit where credit is due) about Cloudflare being easily avoidable are from people with absolutely zero clue about the most basics of the offerings.

Of course you find it easily avoidable when you’ve avoided understanding what it is for the last 10 years.

Cloudflare is completely avoidable for most businesses.

default

@remy said:

@emgh said:
I’m not sure why but single take except for one (@fatchan - credit where credit is due) about Cloudflare being easily avoidable are from people with absolutely zero clue about the most basics of the offerings.

Of course you find it easily avoidable when you’ve avoided understanding what it is for the last 10 years.

Cloudflare is completely avoidable for most businesses.

Absolutely, and yet many don't. I would dare to assume that about 1/3 of internet relies on Cloudflare.

emgh

@remy said:

@emgh said:
I’m not sure why but single take except for one (@fatchan - credit where credit is due) about Cloudflare being easily avoidable are from people with absolutely zero clue about the most basics of the offerings.

Of course you find it easily avoidable when you’ve avoided understanding what it is for the last 10 years.

Cloudflare is completely avoidable for most businesses.

How would you make your site safe from L4 & L7 DDoS including WAF rulesets, good rate limiting, selected challenges using machine learnig for suspect traffic and implement geo-distributed caching in a way that’s free to affordable and easy to setup (i.e. minutes)?

remy

@emgh said:

@remy said:

@emgh said:
I’m not sure why but single take except for one (@fatchan - credit where credit is due) about Cloudflare being easily avoidable are from people with absolutely zero clue about the most basics of the offerings.

Of course you find it easily avoidable when you’ve avoided understanding what it is for the last 10 years.

Cloudflare is completely avoidable for most businesses.

How would you make your site safe from L4 & L7 DDoS including WAF rulesets, good rate limiting, selected challenges using machine learnig for suspect traffic and implement geo-distributed caching in a way that’s free to affordable and easy to setup (i.e. minutes)?

You need all that or they let you think that you need that ?
Nginx + modsecurity OWASP core rules and basic rate limiting is enough for majority of websites.
And I’m talking about b2c websites that generate millions of revenue per year.
All websites are not chatgpt or whatever, most websites have basic requirements.

Are you talking about websites larger than that or in gaming industry? If not, I don’t understand your point and problems you face

emgh

@remy said:

@emgh said:

@remy said:

@emgh said:
I’m not sure why but single take except for one (@fatchan - credit where credit is due) about Cloudflare being easily avoidable are from people with absolutely zero clue about the most basics of the offerings.

Of course you find it easily avoidable when you’ve avoided understanding what it is for the last 10 years.

Cloudflare is completely avoidable for most businesses.

How would you make your site safe from L4 & L7 DDoS including WAF rulesets, good rate limiting, selected challenges using machine learnig for suspect traffic and implement geo-distributed caching in a way that’s free to affordable and easy to setup (i.e. minutes)?

You need all that or they let you think that you need that ?
Nginx + modsecurity OWASP core rules and basic rate limiting is enough for majority of websites.
And I’m talking about b2c websites that generate millions of revenue per year.
All websites are not chatgpt or whatever, most websites have basic requirements.

Are you talking about websites larger than that or in gaming industry? If not, I don’t understand your point and problems you face

I do lots of scraping myself and while all these things are easy to get through, it costs much more resources. All these things lead to about 70 % less bandwidth usage and served requests for my backends.

As for frontends, 100 % decrease in resources as Cloudflare does static ones for free through Pages. Built in CDN etc.

So sure, I could do without all of it, and get a slower website that’s more vulnerable, and I’d increase my hosting bills doing it.

JosephF

It isn't the end of the world for the vast majority of websites, especially ones not selling stuff, if it goes down for a couple of hours once in five years.

remy

@emgh said:

@remy said:

@emgh said:

@remy said:

@emgh said:
I’m not sure why but single take except for one (@fatchan - credit where credit is due) about Cloudflare being easily avoidable are from people with absolutely zero clue about the most basics of the offerings.

Of course you find it easily avoidable when you’ve avoided understanding what it is for the last 10 years.

Cloudflare is completely avoidable for most businesses.

How would you make your site safe from L4 & L7 DDoS including WAF rulesets, good rate limiting, selected challenges using machine learnig for suspect traffic and implement geo-distributed caching in a way that’s free to affordable and easy to setup (i.e. minutes)?

You need all that or they let you think that you need that ?
Nginx + modsecurity OWASP core rules and basic rate limiting is enough for majority of websites.
And I’m talking about b2c websites that generate millions of revenue per year.
All websites are not chatgpt or whatever, most websites have basic requirements.

Are you talking about websites larger than that or in gaming industry? If not, I don’t understand your point and problems you face

I do lots of scraping myself and while all these things are easy to get through, it costs much more resources. All these things lead to about 70 % less bandwidth usage and served requests for my backends.

As for frontends, 100 % decrease in resources as Cloudflare does static ones for free through Pages. Built in CDN etc.

So sure, I could do without all of it, and get a slower website that’s more vulnerable, and I’d increase my hosting bills doing it.

Hosting costs are negligible if you run a real business except maybe you run an hosting company or Netflix like platform

Relying on cloudflare adds unnecessary complexity: you send all your traffic through an american company, making your infrastructure dependent on a 3rd party provider (with a near monopoly…)

This introduces double points of failure: any downtime on your servers plus any cf outage.

CF is useful in very high traffic websites or specialized cases, but for the majority, it’s simply overkill.
Just my 2 cents, still based on my experience.

default

Let's just hope Cloudflare won't go down during Black Friday.

jbiloh

@default said:
Let's just hope Cloudflare won't go down during Black Friday.

We need all the help we can get over here.

beanman109

@jbiloh said:

@default said:
Let's just hope Cloudflare won't go down during Black Friday.

We need all the help we can get over here.

Hello it s possibel BEANSUMMERCDN is in works

default

@beanman109 said:

@jbiloh said:

@default said:
Let's just hope Cloudflare won't go down during Black Friday.

We need all the help we can get over here.

Hello it s possibel BEANSUMMERCDN is in works

Are you sure it works? It has summer in the name, and we're in winter.

beanman109

@default said:

@beanman109 said:

@jbiloh said:

@default said:
Let's just hope Cloudflare won't go down during Black Friday.

We need all the help we can get over here.

Hello it s possibel BEANSUMMERCDN is in works

Are you sure it works? It has summer in the name, and we're in winter.

Sir have you ever heard of the hemispheres

default

@beanman109 said:

@default said:

@beanman109 said:

@jbiloh said:

@default said:
Let's just hope Cloudflare won't go down during Black Friday.

We need all the help we can get over here.

Hello it s possibel BEANSUMMERCDN is in works

Are you sure it works? It has summer in the name, and we're in winter.

Sir have you ever heard of the hemispheres

OK sir. Now I get it. So it should work sir. @jbiloh is saivd.

beanman109

@default said:

@beanman109 said:

@default said:

@beanman109 said:

@jbiloh said:

@default said:
Let's just hope Cloudflare won't go down during Black Friday.

We need all the help we can get over here.

Hello it s possibel BEANSUMMERCDN is in works

Are you sure it works? It has summer in the name, and we're in winter.

Sir have you ever heard of the hemispheres

OK sir. Now I get it. So it should work sir. @jbiloh is saivd.

It's always summer somewhere in the world 🔥

emgh

@beanman109 said:

@default said:

@beanman109 said:

@jbiloh said:

@default said:
Let's just hope Cloudflare won't go down during Black Friday.

We need all the help we can get over here.

Hello it s possibel BEANSUMMERCDN is in works

Are you sure it works? It has summer in the name, and we're in winter.

Sir have you ever heard of the hemispheres

What does the veins in my ass have to do with the weather