{"id":578708,"date":"2025-11-18T17:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578708\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:28:16","slug":"cloudflare-down-internet-outage-take-out-x-chatgpt-and-oda-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578708\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare down: Internet outage take out X, ChatGPT and oda websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/445dddc0-c477-11f0-928c-0b4fbc4b5b2a.jpg.webp.webp\"   alt=\"A Cloudflare logo on a mobile phone\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1021\" height=\"575\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1021 \/ 575\" class=\"css-4ejld5\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-nyj3yn\" role=\"text\">Wia dis foto come from, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"article-byline\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"css-m04vo2\">Article Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"css-1rvtlej\">\n<li class=\"css-oe8da4\">\n<ul role=\"list\" class=\"css-1rnycnn\">\n<li>Author, Liv McMahon<\/li>\n<li>Role,  Technology reporter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1clfxfc\">18 November 2025, 14:34 WAT\n<p>New Informate 3 hours wey don pass<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1clfxfc\"\/><\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">Some high-profile websites, wey include X and ChatGPT, don go down for some users sake of problems wey dey affect major internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">Thousands of users report issues wit X and oda services to outage monitoring site Downdetector shortly afta 11:30 GMT on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">On dia homepage, X show one message wey say problem dey wit dia internal server, sake of one &#8220;error&#8221; wey come from Cloudflare.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">ChatGPT site also dey show error message wey dey tell some users: &#8220;please unblock challenges cloudflare.com to proceed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">&#8220;Cloudflare dey aware of, and dey investigate one issue wey don affect multiple customers,&#8221; di company tok for one note on dia service status dashboard at 11:48 UTC.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">For subsequent update, di company say dem dey &#8220;see services recover&#8221; but add say customers &#8220;fit continue to observe higher-dan-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">Dis suggest say some platforms fit continue to experience issues as di company dey work to resolve di technical problems dem get.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">Cloudflare na big provider of internet security across di world, dem dey carry out services like checking visitor connections to sites wey dey come from humans rather dan bots.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">Dem say 20% of all websites worldwide dey use dia services in some form.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">E neva dey clear which and how many of dos websites dey affected by dis outage, and to which extent.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">However, some users dey report say di problems dey affect oda high-profile platforms, including OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">Downdetector sef &#8211; one site wey many users dey visit wen sites stop to dey load or appear to get issues &#8211; also show one error message as many pipo dey try to access am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">OpenAI tok say dem dey investigate dos issues but dem no say if e dey related to Cloudflare.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">Issues wey dey affect Cloudflare services come afta one outage wey affect Amazon Web Services last month see more dan 1,000 sites and apps knock offline.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">Anoda major web services provider, Microsoft Azure, bin also dey affected shortly after.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-1umsmdl e17g058b0\">Some experts suggest say dis kain incidents highlight how modern internet dey fragile, and di serious kasala wey e fit cause small-small companies under am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wia dis foto come from, Getty Images Article Information Author, Liv McMahon Role, Technology reporter 18 November 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-578708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115571887323222251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}