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Cloudflare outage ongoing as widespread internet outages spread — X, Downdetector go down, company confirms Global Network issue

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The ongoing Cloudflare outage isn't only affecting services, but also websites like The Register, Notebookcheck, and Videocardz, which all display an Error 500 message when attempting to access them. Stay tuned to Tom's Hardware for more updates.

The free MMORPG, Runescape has been impacted by the Cloudflare outage with players turning to Reddit to report that they cannot log in nor use the wiki.

Another update, but nothing to get excited about, yet! Update - We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers.

Nov 18, 2025 - 13:35 UTC

(Image credit: Windscribe) Is the Windscribe VPN another victim of the Cloudflare outage? We don't know because the status page is also down. Stewart is not having a good day, he uses it to check our deals.

(Image credit: Downdetector) Lets take another look at Downdectors graph of reported Cloudflare issues. After a large spike at 11:45AM GMT (4,558 reports) things have calmed a little, with 1,927 reports at 12:45PM. As we know, the sys admins at Cloudflare are working on the issue, so it is now just a matter of time, and a constant of supply of coffee until the teams have things up and running again.

According to its status page, ClaudAI is suffering a major outage due to Cloudflare's own outage. The old adage of "Don't put your eggs all in one basket" is once again being proven by another Internet outage. (Image credit: Cluade)

WARP is back online! Could this indicate that things will soon be working again? Update - We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates.

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