Cloudflare Outage Disrupts X, ChatGPT and Thousands of Sites
Cloudflare's network outage disrupted about 20% of global web traffic, causing errors and downtime for thousands of users on major platforms including X and ChatGPT.
- On November 18, 2025, Cloudflare's global network outage disrupted thousands of sites, including X and OpenAI's ChatGPT, causing widespread inaccessibility this morning.
- Cloudflare said it was experiencing an internal service degradation in its global network that caused widespread 500 errors and coincided with scheduled maintenance at SCL and Miami data centres.
- Downdetector recorded a surge in reports with over 7,000 at noon as affected sites returned HTTP 500 errors, hitting Spotify, Canva, PayPal, Letterboxd, League of Legends, and Downdetector itself.
- Despite partial recovery, Cloudflare updated on October 24, 2025, that services were recovering, but customers may still see higher error rates during remediation.
- Cloudflare's broad footprint — roughly 19.4% of all websites on the internet — means many rely on it, and switching VPN locations often restored access, highlighting concentration risks.
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