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Cloudflare Is Down Worldwide: What Happened, What It Means & What You Can Do

🌍 Cloudflare Is Down Worldwide: What Happened & Why the Internet Broke Today On 18 November 2025 , the internet experienced one of the largest global outages in years as Cloudflare , the backbone of countless websites and online services, went down unexpectedly. The outage caused millions of websites to become slow, unreachable, or return 5xx internal server errors , leading to widespread disruption across businesses, apps, and essential online platforms. This blog post explains what happened, why the internet broke for many users, and what Cloudflare has officially said so far. What Exactly Happened? Around 4:30 PM IST , reports began flooding social media and outage trackers like Downdetector. Users across India, Europe, the US, and Southeast Asia noticed that: Websites were not loading Requests were timing out Services dependent on Cloudflare CDN or DNS stopped responding APIs hosted through Cloudflare were failing Even some security and protection layers were ...