If you struggled to access some websites and online services today, November 18 2025, you weren’t alone as an issue with a service provider had a serious knock-on effect for several sites.
The good news is, the issue has been resolved, with service provider Cloudflare confirming at 6:42AM PT that “a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved”, following up at 9:44 AM PT to confirm “Cloudflare services are currently operating normally”.
The company had said it was dealing with “an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing.“
A couple of the big names hit were X (Twitter) and OpenAI (ChatGPT) – with the services unavailable to, or not working properly for, many around the world.
This comes just weeks after a major AWS outage took down a sizable chunk of the internet for a much longer period.
Cloudflare internet outage: key updates
- 09:44 AM PT: Cloudflare services are currently operating normally
- 09:14 AM PT: Errors and latency return to normal levels
- 07:40 AM PT: Services continue to be restored after fix is issued
- 06:57 AM PT: Cloudflare notes: “Some customers may be still experiencing”
- 06:42 AM PT: “A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved.”
- 06:34 AM PT: “Dashboard services” restored
- 05:35 AM PT: Cloudflare says it’s “continuing working on restoring service for application services customers”
- 05:09 AM PT: “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”
- 04:21 AM PT: A promising update as Cloudflare says “we are seeing services recover”
- 03:48 AM PT: Cloudflare acknowledges issue, says it’s investigating
