US EditionCloudflare Outage Disrupts X, ChatGPT and Thousands of Sites
Cloudflare's internal service degradation disrupted 20% of global websites including X and ChatGPT, with over 10,000 user reports logged by Downdetector.
- 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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A critical outage at Cloudflare disrupted major portions of the internet early Tuesday, taking down key platforms like Elon Musk’s X, ChatGPT, Downdetector, and even several news websites. The failure exposed just how dependent the web has become on a few centralized infrastructure providers. The issue originated inside Cloudflare’s Global Network and triggered widespread HTTP 500 errors. These server-level failures affected Cloudflare’s dashboa…
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