Another Cloudflare Outage?
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Cloudflare is experiencing another outage, leaving users scrambling as they hit 500 Internal Server Error roadblocks across various sites, including Cloudflare.com itself, LinkedIn, and Shopify. Commenters are sharing their own tales of woe, with some joking about the timing of their attempts to try out Cloudflare's services. As the outage affects a swath of the internet, users are speculating about the extent of the disruption, with one commenter wryly noting that "half the internet" seems to be down. The outage has sparked a lively discussion, with users exchanging links to status updates and other related threads.
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I guess half the internet?
I see more and more 'Partially Re-routed' https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Edit: interestingly, my site running on workers https://codeinput.com is still functioning. Worth mentioning that I don't use Cloudflare firewall/caching (directly exposed workers)