Business Cloudflare down: Websites such as X not working amid technical problems with the internet - Should have used Kiwiflare

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/cloudflare-down-twitter-not-working-outage-b2867367.html

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Cloudflare down: Websites such as X not working amid technical problems with the internet​

Andrew Griffin Tuesday 18 November 2025 11:58 GMT

Parts of the web appear to have stopped working amid a technical problem at Cloudflare.

Visitors to websites such as X, formerly known as Twitter, and film reviewing site Letterboxd saw an error message that indicated that Cloudflare problems meant that the page could not show.

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure that offers many of the core technologies that power today’s online experiences. That includes tools that protect websites from cyber attacks and ensure that they stay online amid heavy traffic, for instance.

“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers,” the company said in a new update. “Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.”

Tracking website Down Detector, which monitors outage, was also hit by the technical problems itself. But when it loaded it showed a dramatic spike in problems.

Affected users saw a message indicating there was an “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network”. It asked users to “please try again in a few minutes”.

 

[Dixieland Buckaroo]

Suffer Matthew

Can Null (or someone with the know-how) talk a bit about the technical requirements of deploying a proof-of-work "CAPTCHA" protection (I presume in conjunction with a number of external gateways), as Null has done with KiwiFlare, versus just clicking a button to deploy Cloudflare? I've slowly started see some PoW "CAPTCHAs" on sites beyond the Farms (notably Brave), but I'm curious how much of this is laziness versus technical issues versus cost.

Obviously the cost is huge in a "the system is down" situation as we see today, but how does that stack against a proof of work deployment. Obviously Null has had to re-route or redeploy some of the KiwiFlare in response to large enough DDoS attacks... but larger companies (who aren't de-banked), could set up a larger array.

I know Cloudflare are faggots who hate free speech and like to protect weirdos, but a quantification of the costs and ease of deployment would be really interesting.

 

[deleuzeon]

Has anyone else been getting the feeling lately, with this year in particular, that a lot of commercial websites have been coming under DDOS attack lately?

I do vaguely remember hearing about "the largest botnet ever discovered" not that long ago, which was like a few months after the previous largest botnet ever discovered.

 

[HildegardOrgonAkkumulator]

I wonder when USIPS's site will go down with Microsoft Azure’s turn, shitting itself.

 

[Spergichu]

The L A R G E D O G S defecated on Cloudflare's servers then aggressively barked at any jeet who tried to fix it (by shitting on the servers themselves)

 

[innocent jogger]

The No-Donger's new #dropcloudflare campaign seems to working. What a gorrious consent accident!

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Everyday more and more, cloudflare dropping Kiwifarms became a blessing in disguise.

 

[яндекс]

Assorted troonsky seething (BS), (BS), (BS), (BS)
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So, they are still lurking this site, unsurprising. Well, then:

I know you're reading this you fucking tranny:

Everybody knows you are a disgusting porn addict.

You will never be a woman.

You will never pass and you know it.

Filters don't exist in real life.

If you commit to SRS you will have to dilate for the rest of your miserable life.

Everything wrong in your life is entirely your own fault.

Nobody owes anything to a tranny like you because you are a net negative to society.

You will always be the ugliest and most off-putting faggot in the room.

 

[neger psykolog]

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I enjoy how every negative thing they have to say about the k-farms, while some of it may even be true, applies doubly so to every major social media platform including Xitter and Bluesky. Facebook and Instagram have wrought society and humanity in the worst ways possible and enabled and promoted literal genocide.

Hypocrites who strangely have focus on a tiny drama website just because it archives shit. How strange.

Consent accident.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Matthew Prince supports pro-pedophilia and terrorism websites. The fact that one of the most powerful techniggers in the world got girlcock talked by a thwomp faced troon is pathetic.

Same with those EFF cucks.

 

[Jose Beaner Luna]

I cant believe Josh Kiwifarms did this.

 

[Silver Higgs]

Oh no! Guys that table over there "KATCHUNG" it turned on itself!!! "KATCHUNG" oh my gawd ANOTHER ONE "KATCHUNG KATCHUNG KATCHUNG KATCHUNG" oh! oh my gawd... the tables- "KATCHUNG" are turning!! "KATCHUNG".

 

[Toolbox]

Any attacks would first go after infrastructure (power plants, water treatment facilities) and in USA nigger welfare, not cloudflare.

If they were looking for all out war. Blocking people's ability to visit banking websites, twitter, and the pirate bay isn't exactly the same. Too many eyes now for direct attacks on infra to not immediately be pinpointed.

 

[jertzog]

Jresh squanders another chance to put Kiwiflare on the market and advertise its services for free.

 

[umekistao]

The Pirate Bay can use Cloudflare

Rutracker uses cloudflare as well

 

[biggacracka]

Jeets? Jews? Pedophiles? Bets are open.

Why did you say pedophiles 3 times?

 

[moocow]

I warned an old employer about the dangers of centralizing on Cloudflare, and even got in our CF account rep's face about dropping Kiwi Farms (and prompted a far-too-brief exploration of alternatives that unfortunately didn't go anywhere once the IT director stepped in). It delights me to no end thinking they're remembering my warnings right now.

Between this, and AWS a few weeks ago, and MS having issues with their "frontdoor"; my tin foil antenna hat keeps going off. Not to say it can't just be Jeets redeeming, but what are the odds that it's instead a low-grade cyberwar brewing in the background between nation-state actors - none of who would want to actually admit it because of the can of worms it would open up?

I'd call the jeet invasion a low-grade cyberwar in the first place -- replacing competent people with incompetent, nepotistic, racist, lying sacks of shit in technological positions is a slow war of attrition that will severely brain-drain the entire industry and set us all back 20 years if it doesn't get stopped soon.

But this particular outage is likely due to incompetence more than anything else. Cloudflare's internals aren't as bad as AWS', but they're still far too dependent on single-point-of-failure mechanisms to really be considered 100% reliable.

 

[mindlessobserver]

The issue has been contained, but its a temporary fix.

 

[JosephStalin]

Fuck bucket's empty. Serves them right for the way they mistreated Josh.

 

[indomitable snowman]

Cloudflare is an immediate threat to human life.

 

[NoReturn]

Text so I don't get in trouble.