Hey folks,
just wanted to drop a detailed rant/analysis about the current Cloudflare outage, since it’s causing chaos pretty much everywhere — and let’s be honest, long posts like this rack up sweet forum points in the off-topic section
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What’s Actually Going On
Why This Outage Actually Matters (and why we’re discussing it here)
just wanted to drop a detailed rant/analysis about the current Cloudflare outage, since it’s causing chaos pretty much everywhere — and let’s be honest, long posts like this rack up sweet forum points in the off-topic section
.What’s Actually Going On
- Widespread Global Issues
Lots of users are reporting 500 errors (“Internal Server Error”) directly from Cloudflare’s network.
It’s not just a single website going offline — several major services that rely on Cloudflare infrastructure are being hit at the same time. - Support Portal Is Also Down
Even Cloudflare’s own support portal is affected. The irony is that the support system depends on a third-party vendor, and that vendor seems to be having issues too.
This means customers can’t open tickets or access Cloudflare’s usual help channels. - Unclear Root Cause (for now)
Cloudflare has acknowledged the outage and said the incident is under investigation.
Some early reports suggest a massive CPU spike that brought down both primary and backup systems — not unheard of in Cloudflare’s history.
Past outages were caused by things like a buggy WAF rule update that overloaded CPUs, or a broken routine software update that accidentally crippled global traffic.
And in June 2025, a massive incident was caused by a third-party storage failure affecting Workers KV, a key backend dependency. That outage cascaded into Access, WARP, Workers AI, Gateway, and more. - Possible Involvement of Google Cloud
Cloudflare relies on Google Cloud for some backend services, and some reports suggest that part of the current disruption might be linked to Google Cloud outages.
So it’s not as simple as “Cloudflare broke something.” There’s a chain of dependencies, and when one breaks, everything downstream starts burning. - Mitigation Efforts
Cloudflare reportedly started shutting down the processes that caused the CPU spike and began rolling back some updates.
They’ve restored parts of the service but are still monitoring and stabilizing the platform. Meanwhile, users and sysadmins are understandably annoyed — Cloudflare sits at the core of the modern internet, so when it hiccups, everything shakes.
Why This Outage Actually Matters (and why we’re discussing it here)
- Large-scale impact: This isn’t your cousin’s WordPress blog going offline — Cloudflare is a backbone provider for DNS, CDN, reverse proxying, and edge computing. When they go down, the internet feels it.
- Dependency problem: A ton of companies — from tiny SaaS startups to global platforms — rely on Cloudflare. That kind of centralization creates huge single points of failure.
- A reminder about resilience: This outage highlights how fragile modern infrastructure is when several layers depend on each other, especially when external vendors like Google Cloud are part of the stack.
- Off-topic thread gold: And of course, moments like these give us the chance to write long, dramatic posts full of technical rambling and speculation — perfect for farming forum karma.