A major Cloudflare outage has disrupted several parts of the internet today, taking down platforms that rely on its DNS and proxy services. Even websites protected or accelerated by Cloudflare stopped loading, showing error messages across the web.
Users trying to open X (formerly Twitter), Letterboxd, and many other sites saw a message blaming an “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network”. Refreshing the page worked for some people, but most users remained locked out.
Cloudflare confirmed the issue on its official status page, saying it is investigating a problem affecting “multiple customers”. The company did not share technical details yet, but promised more updates soon.
Down Detector, the platform that tracks outages, also faced problems because of the same Cloudflare disruption. When it finally loaded, it showed a massive spike in user reports.
The outage started around 11:30 AM UK time. By then, the impact was already visible across a wide range of sites. This is because Cloudflare sits deep in the internet’s backbone. It handles DNS, traffic optimisation, DDoS protection, and other core services used by millions of websites globally. When Cloudflare faces issues, the ripple effect is huge, similar to what we often see during AWS outages.
For now, users can only wait. Cloudflare says its engineers are working on the fix. As the service starts recovering, some websites may load slowly or behave unpredictably before everything stabilises.
