November 18, 2025: A massive internet outage struck earlier today because of Cloudflare, causing widespread disruption across major platforms including X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Canva, and Discord. The culprit was a significant service degradation within Cloudflare, the web infrastructure and security giant that powers a vast portion of the internet.
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What Happened?
According to Cloudflare’s official status page, the incident began around 11:48 UTC, with the company investigating “internal service degradation.” Users worldwide were greeted with “500 Internal Server Errors” and connection timeouts. The outage affected Cloudflare’s Dashboard and API, making it difficult for site administrators to even assess the damage initially.
By 13:09 UTC, Cloudflare identified the root cause and began implementing a fix. As of the latest update at 13:35 UTC, the company stated they are “continuing working on restoring service for application services customers,” though many services have already started to come back online.
Impact on Major Platforms
The ripple effect was immediate and severe. Reports from Moneycontrol highlighted that millions of users were unable to access essential tools.
- Social Media: X users faced timeline loading errors.
- AI Tools: ChatGPT and Perplexity AI became unresponsive.
- Streaming & Utilities: Spotify, Canva, and Discord also reported significant downtime.
TechnoSports and the Outage
Readers of TechnoSports.co.in may have also experienced difficulties accessing the site during this window. Like thousands of modern digital publishers, TechnoSports utilizes Cloudflare’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) to ensure fast load times and security against DDoS attacks. While this infrastructure is crucial for daily performance, today’s event highlights the challenges of a centralized web ecosystem—when the shield goes down, the sites behind it often go dark too.
Latest Status
The worst appears to be over. Cloudflare has re-enabled WARP access in affected regions like London and error rates are returning to pre-incident levels. However, intermittent issues may persist as systems fully stabilize.
For real-time updates, you can check the Cloudflare System Status.
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