{"id":27930,"date":"2025-11-18T15:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27930"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:04:03","slug":"cloudflare-outage-easing-after-impacting-thousands-of-internet-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27930","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare outage easing after impacting thousands of internet users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u00a0global outage at web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare\u00a0 began to ease on Tuesday after preventing thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, said it started to investigate the internal service degradation around 6:40 am\u00a0ET. It has deployed a fix but some customers might still be impacted as it recovers service.<\/p>\n<p>The incident marked the latest hit to major online services. An outage of\u00a0Amazon&#8217;s cloud service\u00a0last month caused global turmoil as thousands of popular websites and apps, including Snapchat\u00a0and Reddit\u00a0were inaccessible due to the disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0AI misuse fears grow after Anthropic reports China-linked cyber campaign<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare &#8211; whose shares were down about 5% in premarket trading &#8211; runs one of the world&#8217;s largest networks that helps websites and apps load faster and stay online by protecting them from traffic surges and cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>The latest outage prevented thousands of users from accessing platforms such as Canva, X, Grindr and ChatGPT, prompting users to log outage reports with Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p>Reports about issues with Cloudflare had, however, come down to about 600 by 8 a.m. ET from a peak of nearly 5,000, the outage-tracking tool showed.<\/p>\n<p>Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Since the numbers are based on user-submitted reports, the actual number of affected users may vary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare&#8217;s services beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare&#8217;s network to experience errors,&#8221; the company said in an emailed statement. &#8220;We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>X and ChatGPT-creator OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0global outage at web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare\u00a0 began to ease on Tuesday after preventing thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT. Cloudflare, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, said it started to investigate the internal service degradation around 6:40 am\u00a0ET. It has deployed a fix but some customers might still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}