When Cloudflare goes down, the internet goes with it. That’s exactly what happened today when a major Cloudflare outage caused thousands of websites, apps, and online services to fail at the same time.
From e-commerce stores to streaming platforms, login systems, APIs, and even government portals, everything slowed to a crawl or completely stopped loading.
For millions of users, it looked like “the whole internet broke.”
And honestly… it kind of did.
While Cloudflare hasn’t released a full technical report yet, early signs point to:
Cloudflare runs one of the largest CDN and security networks in the world, so any disruption quickly creates a global ripple effect. Even a small misconfiguration can knock out a huge chunk of the web.
Here’s what users reported during the downtime:
If you rely on Cloudflare (directly or indirectly), you felt it.
And fun fact: many websites use Cloudflare without users ever knowing, so the outage felt even more widespread than expected.
The disruption lasted roughly 30–60 minutes, depending on your region.
Some systems recovered almost immediately; others needed additional time due to cached routes and DNS propagation delays.
Cloudflare typically publishes a post-incident report explaining:
Their transparency is one reason they’re trusted by millions of websites, even when things go wrong.
Cloudflare is one of the backbone pillars of the modern internet, so when it stumbles, the impact is impossible to ignore. Today’s outage was a reminder of how interconnected the online world really is, and how a single network issue can bring huge parts of it to a halt.
On the bright side:
At least we all got a forced break from endlessly refreshing our favourite sites 🤷♂️.