Ask HN: Cloudflare is down. How does this affect you?

Internet is down, I guess I'll just look out of the window for a bit

I was trying to look up banana-based jokes (https://upjoke.com/banana-jokes) and discovered that London Cloudflare seems to be down.

Then, I tried various down detecting sites and they didn't seem to work either - presumably due to Cloudflare.

Our company is loosing money with every second of downtime.

Update: It seems to be back, the downtime lasted maybe 5-6 minutes

From the Cloudflare status website: "Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress." Maybe something went wrong while doing maintenance?

>Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

>Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.

>Posted 4 minutes ago

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7

Cloudflare's dashboard is currently down as well.

My domain is registered with cloudflare so I'm 100% helpless to get things back online.

I can't edit DNS records to bypass cloudflare and I can't change nameservers either.

It’s down worldwide practically, in the US,UK,NZ,AU

Update: Cloudflare has announced they will be sacrificing their CEO at the alter in penance

It took supabase and X down for me

I was using Cloudflare WARP; had to turn it off to access most of the websites i visit daily.

Same problem here in Italy. Website up and down again.

all the captcha's are also not working

pretty much just my twitter usage as of now. my sites dont use cloudflare

Back up for me now

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Took down both Twitter and Rateyourmusic. This is a targetted attack against me specifically and nobody else

The non profit I volunteer at is unreachable. It gives a cloudflare error page. Another source of failure.

It’s been great, but I always wonder when a company starts doing more than it’s initially calling. There have been a ton of large attacks.

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It would have been ironic had this https://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/salesguy.html been hosted behind cloudflare.

All my websites are down due to Cloudflare

It would appear if you use a VPN in Europe you can still access Cloudflare sites, I have just tried, for me the Netherlands, Germany, and France work, but the UK and USA don't.

EDIT: It would appear it is still unreliable in these countries, it just stopped working in France for me.

Unfortunately it does not. Somehow these issues never affect me or my work. It's horrible (for the latter part, obviously).

Just now it was acknowledge in the status page.

Using Cloudflare is a tradeoff between facing DDoS and other attacks, and the downtime of Cloudflare.

Still down for me

Keeps going up and down for me, I cant access DownDetector to check. The first website I noticed it on was Blender Artists.

Most down-detectors are down due to their dependency on CF.

Cloudflare Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad edge-nodes also unable to serve content.

x.com down.

Few quick-commerce apps are acting up at times.

it comes back up now

It's the first time it's been down that I've seen a sensible error message.

But I was supposed to be commuting, so I guess I'll do that.

Right now is working in Italy: https://www.endoacustica.com/ I hope will be not down again.

Saw cloudflare go down before my very eyes on colonist.io in Australia

Yes, it impacted our services https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

ChatGPT and Perplexity AI are down, I was just about to try and use ChatGPT.