ChatGPT also offline
That page shows an error that is recurring across affected sites: “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.”
(But don’t worry – you don’t need to unblock anything, just wait it out.)
Andrew Griffin18 November 2025 12:47
Problem does not appear to be solved
Anecdotally, the problems seem to be back again. Many pages have stopped loading once more.
Cloudflare says on its status page that it is “continuing to investigate this issue”. That’s a new update, posted since it said it thought it was fixed, suggesting that the problems do remain.
Andrew Griffin18 November 2025 12:44
Things appear to be coming back to normal
Cloudflare has posted another update, indicating that things are fixing but might still be broken for a little while.
“We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts,” the latest post reads.
Andrew Griffin18 November 2025 12:35
Down Detector shows problems at OpenAI and League of Legends
X, formerly Twitter, is the most prominent website to stop working as a result of today’s problems. But tracking website Down Detector shows issues at a range of other sites, which might be related.
OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT; bet365; League of Legends and payment company Sage are all showing up as suffering issues.
(Down Detector)
(I don’t think there are problems at Amazon Web Services; I presume the fact that people are discussing and thinking about the outage a month ago is triggering the tool’s automated tracking systems.)
Andrew Griffin18 November 2025 12:32
What actually is Cloudflare?
It’s usually invisible – and that’s how it should be. But today, Cloudflare got a lot more conspicuous.
Here’s an explainer of what it actually is.
Andrew Griffin18 November 2025 12:27
Some websites appear to be coming back to life
X, formerly Twitter, had previously been inaccessible for this reporter. Now it is loading, so perhaps Cloudflare’s work to mitigate the outage is working.
The company is yet to post on its status page that the problem has been fixed, however.
Andrew Griffin18 November 2025 12:19
Cloudflare updates its status amid widespread problems
Cloudflare had initially said only that it was aware of troubles. It has now given a little more information – though it still sounds like it does not know the source of the problem or a way to fix it.
“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing,” the updated message reads. “We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.”
Andrew Griffin18 November 2025 12:11
Cloudflare outage echoes AWS problems a month ago
Andrew Griffin18 November 2025 12:09
How did problems start?
The problems began around 11.30am UK time, though at that time some websites appeared to be loading when they were refreshed. Cloudflare posted an update acknowledging the issue around 15 minutes later.
Another 15 minutes later, the company posted an update saying that it was “continuing to investigate this issue” but giving no indication that it was aware of the cause of a problem or a way to fix it.
Andrew Griffin18 November 2025 12:08
Hello and welcome…
… to The Independent’s live coverage of a major outage at Cloudflare, which provides internet infrastructure for much of the web.
Andrew Griffin18 November 2025 12:08
