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Cloudflare is investigating an outage (Image: Thomas Fuller\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\nOutage monitoring website Downdetector was flooded with reports of users having problems with the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare<\/p>\n
04:28 ET, 05 Dec 2025Updated 05:02 ET, 05 Dec 2025<\/p>\n
Cloudflare is investigating an outage (Image: Thomas Fuller\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n
Cloudflare is down, taking many websites with it, with thousands of users reporting problems.<\/p>\n
Users of X, Substack, Canva and among those affected. This is not the first time that this happened in recent months, with workers across the world impacted.<\/a><\/p>\n Downdetector, which tracks outages across the net, notes: “User reports indicate problems at Cloudflare.”<\/p>\n The widely used internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of many online services.<\/p>\n Visitors to a number of pages were met with a \u201c500 internet server error\u201d warning. The outage came amid a scheduled maintenance.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Bitter cold blast threatens New Jersey with record lows as concerning icy map shows blanket of snow<\/a>READ MORE: Erika Kirk makes confusing Zohran Mamdani claim about female voters<\/a><\/p>\n Around 4,000 people reported issues with Cloudflare on Downdetector in a matter of minutes but the number of people affected is likely much higher. Some people claimed they couldn’t access Downdetector due to the outage.<\/p>\n It comes after a massive outage of Cloudflare last month affected millions.<\/p>\n What is Cloudflare?<\/p>\n Cloudflare, based in San Francisco, works behind the scenes to make the internet faster and safer, but when problems flare up \u201cit results in massive digital gridlock\u201d for internet users, cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple said.<\/p>\n While most people think there\u2019s a direct line between their digital device and a website, what actually happens is that companies like Cloudflare sits in the middle of those connections, he said.<\/p>\n Cloudflare is a \u201ccontent delivery network\u201d that takes content from 20% of the world\u2019s websites and mirrors them on thousands of servers worldwide, said Chapple, an information technology professor at the University of Notre Dame\u2019s Mendoza College of Business.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you access a website protected by Cloudflare, your computer doesn\u2019t connect directly to that site,\u201d Chapple said. \u201cInstead, it connects to the nearest Cloudflare server, which might be very close to your home.<\/p>\n That protects the website from a flood of traffic, and it provides you with a faster response. It\u2019s a win-win for everyone, until it fails, and 20% of the internet goes down at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outage monitoring website Downdetector was flooded with reports of users having problems with the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,96319,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-331827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-downdetector","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}