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August 17: Problems at Cloudflare
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Cloudflare users through our website.
- Cloud Services (47%)
- Domains (20%)
- Web Tools (13%)
- Hosting (13%)
- E-mail (7%)
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Dimm (@thisisdimm) reported🚨 What should we expect after Stripe’s acquisition of OpenRouter? Stripe has reportedly finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion At first glance, this looks like a payments company buying an AI gateway. The strategic implications could be much bigger. 👉 A unified infrastructure layer for AI economics Stripe already provides usage-based billing, token billing and AI payment infrastructure. OpenRouter adds access to hundreds of models, model discovery, routing, pricing and provider management. Together, the two platforms could potentially cover the entire AI transaction chain: AI request - model selection - inference cost - usage metering - customer billing - payment. 👉 Much deeper enterprise cost control One of the most important observations from industry analysts is that OpenRouter’s real value is not simply the router itself. It sits directly at the point where an AI request becomes a cost. Stripe already manages customers, invoices, balances and payments. Combining those layers could eventually enable native AI budgets, per-agent spending limits, automatic model downgrades, real-time billing and significantly better cost controls. 👉 AI agents may become a central part of the strategy OpenRouter CEO Alex Atallah has previously described the company as something close to a “Stripe for AI.” Meanwhile, Stripe has increasingly focused on machine-to-machine payments and the financial infrastructure required by autonomous software. That makes the acquisition especially relevant for AI agents capable of making thousands of model-selection and spending decisions without direct human intervention. 👉 The AI routing market just became more strategic OpenRouter’s acquisition sends a clear signal that the routing layer is becoming valuable infrastructure. The competition is no longer only about who offers access to the most models. Routing quality, reliability, latency, cost optimization, billing integration and failover are becoming major differentiators. That puts OpenRouter into a broader infrastructure battle with platforms such as Vercel, Cloudflare and other AI gateways. 👉 Neutrality could become the biggest concern A major part of OpenRouter’s appeal is its model-agnostic approach. After the acquisition, users will likely want stronger guarantees that routing decisions remain based on price, performance and availability - rather than Stripe’s commercial relationships. Maintaining that neutrality may become one of the most important tests of the acquisition. 🧠 What could come next: Lower OpenRouter fees are one possibility. OpenRouter currently charges a 5.5% fee when users purchase credits. Stripe now controls the payment infrastructure behind that transaction, which could open the door to new pricing models, enterprise volume discounts or lower transaction friction. Other logical market expectations include: 👉 Native Stripe/OpenRouter balances for AI spending 👉 Per-agent budgets and spending limits 👉 Smarter routing between price, speed and intelligence 👉 Better transparency around why a specific model was selected 👉 Stronger automatic provider failover 👉 Easier BYOK support and usage-data portability 👉 Stablecoin settlement for high-volume machine-to-machine inference 👉 Continued access to free and open-weight models None of these developments have been announced yet. But they represent some of the most logical directions for the combined platform. The bigger story may not be that Stripe bought an AI model marketplace. It may be that Stripe is positioning itself to become the financial and transaction layer underneath AI inference itself.
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Maik Pietzka (@MPi_IT) reported@Cloudflare Excellent reminder that anomaly ≠ incident. A 30% traffic drop was a real signal, but the root cause was human behavior. Monitoring should correlate telemetry with deploys, calendars and regional events before paging. Detection without context becomes noise.
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Vance Vicious (Real, living human being) 🤘😎🤘 (@VanceVicious) reported@XFreeze Unfortunately for me none of the browsers on my pc will let me get to Grok. It keeps saying I'm blocked thanks to Cloudflare. I have asked @Support about this so many times, I can no longer count, but have yet to get a response. Shocking right?
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Fortune Ishaku (@fortuneishaku) reportedAnyone else having issues logging into @Cloudflare ?
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Sixty Gelu (@Sixtylicious) reportedMost brands don't realize their content is invisible to AI search engines. Not because it's bad. Because their CDN is blocking the crawlers before they even get close. Check your Cloudflare settings right now. That toggle might be costing you visibility. More info in link.
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Dean. (@dean_mcpherson) reportedI'm here for celld! We bet heavy on Durable objects for Stepper, and doubled down for our next massive project at Paperform The risky parts of building in DOs is the obvious vendor lock in with CloudFlare, and the subpar story for on prem/data residency If celld slots in there, it'll be massive @rough__sea
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Vegard Wikeby (@vegardwikeby) reported@ezsmith397 it's a time issue than an actual issue. naturally things do depend on client needs... there are bad builders everywhere... and they will show themselves like in any gold-digging-era. i couldn't do what I do now without AI, before it took weeks or months and most things died before they became an implementation. it's a gold era for me, for my brain, for my creative skills and I find AI to expand me, not copy or mirror mediocre cookie cutter deliveries without the depth and skills 25+ years of a nerd behind a screen, with actual real life skills how things work and how to transcend them to the screen, is a gift that keeps growing with AI. one might not need to know what the OSI model is, but knowing things like yourself EZ with programming skills, gives massive advantages others AI builders can't compete with, at least not for another 6 months... but thats our advantage, we can grow now on AI that they won't be able to be at today and skynet is the limit for where we actually are in 6 months. one can prompt shot a site for a client with editable fields with auth for data and create data banks for phone number email etc and template for posts and make a simple interface where they can add posts on /admin with one-time email codes for login (easiest I find for "sometime" updates by clients) and its all run on a cloudflare worker that do all the work. add a report script where customers can click/tap report issues and it feeds back to the backlog and you can automate run them in a cron and you get a notification to fix the planned issue found by yes on telegram or whatever channel. its all in the data now, the cleaner and purer the data is without contingencies such as legacy WP has (for now), the faster the world is moving forward.
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Raj Patil (@outofboundcats) reported@venkateshdotdev i faced the same problem ended up implementing use cloudflare turnsite on all forms
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MasterBismuth (@MasterBismuth) reported****'s sake. Just managed to get my account unlocked because now my Firefox on my desktop can't seem to pass the stupid ******* Cloudflare challenges I'm constantly inundated with. Gonna lock my account but I doubt it'll help. Nikita Bier left this site in a dogshit state.
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Mykyta Pavlenko (@mktpavlenko) reported@Shpigford @Cloudflare an spf fix that fast is absurdly satisfying
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Romano (@RNR_0) reportedTried to consolidate 2 Google workspaces into 1 with an alias email of my mother But without deleting the old ones, just renamed the email of the workspace Then I realized Stripe and Cloudflare used Google social login Also, noticed how weak AI was. 10x same GAM permissions etc
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Terowin (@Teroterowin) reportedUsually i use Cloudflare WARP because my country blocks some accounts i follow here, but today i realise it doesnt work anymore and i cant see those accounts! I manage to get around it with VPN now, but it was still scary. I hope the issue is resolved soon 🥲
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Vivek Maskara (@maskaravivek) reported2. Railway → Cloudflare Workers + Containers I was using Railway for a couple of vibe coded backends, was mostly paying the fixed 20$ for the pro tier. Initially i tried moving it to Cloudflare workers, but ran into runtime issues. So i had to refactor some code to use workers + containers. The container scales down after 90 seconds of inactivity. It introduces some cold start time, but its totally fine for hobby projects. Learning: use Workers for the edge and Containers for the Node-specific parts. Scale-to-zero only works properly when the application is genuinely restart safe.
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MariMarketing Digital (@marimarketingw3) reportedGM, Fam, Happy Saturday! Today I’m bringing you my market thoughts 💭 I came to this conclusion after scrolling through X this week and seeing the same news over and over again… 👀 Cloudflare just gave AI Agents a wallet, MetaMask launched Agent Wallet, and #Coinbase is moving in the same direction. Three major players, all within practically the same week. At first, I thought it was a coincidence. But three in a row? I don’t think that’s a coincidence anymore. I think it’s a clear signal. 🤔 Honestly, my reaction was pretty strange. It felt like 🚄 “watching a train start accelerating while everyone jumps on, and no one stops to check whether the tracks are even finished.” AI Agents can now spend, trade, and execute tasks on their own. But the question that kept coming back to me was: Who can actually prove what this Agent is? What did it do last time? Can you really trust your own Agent? 🔐 Without reliable identity and memory, even the smartest Agent is just a ghost employee with no track record. No matter how capable it is, you still wouldn’t trust it with anything important. And I don’t think I’m the only one who sees it this way. Most people are too busy jumping on the train to look back and check the tracks. That’s why I want to highlight that @DeAgentAI has been solving exactly this from day one: Identity, Continuity, Consensus. These aren’t just three features. They’re the foundation. The tracks need to be solid before the train can go the distance. If we build the AI infrastructure correctly, the buildings can keep rising. 🌇 #AIAgent #DeAgentAI 💡 What do you guys think? Spanish translation below 👇🏻
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Artyom Shimanski (@a_shimanski) reported@sloaxleak @Namecheap @Cloudflare yeah, you're right. paying isn't the problem, picking one that stays up is
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Yasu0x.hl🫀 (@yasu0x1) reported@RNR_0 Did the alias rename break the Google social login for Stripe and Cloudflare, or did they keep working through the old identity?
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.null. (@Blacktrace_) reported@Cloudflare effectively putting the “bouncer” at the network layer rather than asking the agent to behave itself.
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Divyam jha (@_nikhil_jha) reportedAnd got so inspired reading that because I also have the same developer mindset - to question everything He just got stuck at a problem that their is not good framework for cloudflare workers, and he build for his personal projects
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Muskonomy (@muskonomy) reportedNEWS: SpaceXAI's Cursor is adding the Firetiger team. Cursor, the AI coding company now part of SpaceXAI, said the team behind the startup Firetiger is joining it. Firetiger builds AI agents that watch software after it ships. They monitor rollouts, catch bugs, investigate incidents and feed what they learn back to the coding agents that wrote the code. Firetiger was founded in 2024 by Rustam Lalkaka and Achille Roussel, who ran large production systems at Cloudflare, Twitch, Segment and Twilio. The goal is to close the gap between writing code and running it. Cursor wants an agent that can ship a change, watch how it behaves and fix it when something breaks. Firetiger's work will show up across Cursor. Source: Cursor, August 2026
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Paul Michael (@paulmichaeldev) reported@iuditg That's not an SSL expiry, that's an SSL misconfiguration. It's also Atlassian's problem, not Anthropic. I've read your replies and I get your frustration, but how do you deal with a 3rd party dropping the ball with one of your startups? And do you blame all of the individual companies when CloudFlare shits itself causing half of the Internet to go down?
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Caelin (@caelin_sutch) reportedCloudflare remote bindings through zero trust almost never work for me what’s up w that
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Artyom Shimanski (@a_shimanski) reported@JEROMEFARAILL @Namecheap @Cloudflare to be fair it was a cooling failure at PhoenixNAP, not an attack. the single region setup is the real issue
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Sajid Mehmood (@smehmood) reported@axat_div @ethan_breitk @binsquares Cloudflare, no. For the others, they all started on the hyperscalers, but several of them are moving off in a major way (e.g. Railway Metal, Modal uses a number of neoclouds, etc.) And even if the hyperscaler is the underlying compute, it's meaningful that they are losing the direct customer relationship
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Dream Gad (@TwiddersGad) reported@pain0x0 @HalsallDoug @Cloudflare zero rating meaning zero rating...if you don't know what zero rating is i can't help you out of your ignorance...go and educate yourself...
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BENDITO TRADING (@__BENDITO_) reported@fintel_io @wiltonr Hi! I just created a new account, but I'm stuck in an infinite CAPTCHA loop on login (Cloudflare lock). I've tried multiple devices and networks with no success. Could you please help unblock my account? Thanks!
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Ax🕸️ (@wireheaded) reported@naoufal_elh @mauruschatm @bot Use those Starlink IPs if you have to, to get around cloudflare & google's IP blocks. Change the search engine if google captcha issue can't be resolved for search.
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cas Ი𐑼 (@casdotxo) reported@ReisRyougi oh wow i've never done backend stuff good luck with that,, and i had tailscale set up on mine for a while which was nice but i ended up using cloudflare zero trust so i could use a custom domain and share services to people without them needing to install anything on their end
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Nitesh (@NiteshTechAI) reportedText-to-SQL demos always work. Then someone asks about revenue and the model invents a join. @getwrenai puts a governed semantic layer underneath the query. Business definitions, approved examples and metadata live in version-controlled files, so the agent plans against your meaning instead of guessing from column names. • 22+ data sources • Dry-plan validation and row limits • Structured errors with hints, not stack traces • Dashboards ship to Vercel or Cloudflare with one command One caveat worth knowing: it is open core, and row and column level security sit in the Cloud tier. ⭐ 17,000+ stars on GitHub. Apache 2.0. 🔗 GitHub link in the comments
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Rattey (@theRattey) reportedfigma made design multiplayer. ai just made it single player again. designers spent ten years drifting away from code. frameworks kept changing, figma didn't, so everyone settled into rectangles and flows. now ai writes html without complaint, and the quickest way to show an idea is a real page in a browser. real text, real hover states, ten versions in one file. the mockup is the website. the trade is collaboration. one team i read about ran a two week launch sprint entirely in html prototypes. best visual work they'd done in years. sharing it was misery. the marketing lead couldn't open the file, let alone change a word. feedback came in a separate doc. nobody knew which of the six saved versions was the latest. my fix is simple. the agent builds the page, pushes it to vercel or cloudflare, and i send one link. it has a comment box built in. teammates leave notes on it, the agent reads them and makes the edits. no separate doc, no version chaos. and before any of that, twenty minutes asking if the thing should exist at all. building is almost free now. thinking still costs the same.
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GoetzSaCebu (@GoetzCebu) reported@thsottiaux, impressive career trajectory: from engineer and Head of Core Products to Codex’s questionable RESET MASCOT on X. I pay $200 a month for this product. At that price, I should not begin every workday wondering whether Codex still remembers my settings, whether my tools remain authenticated, which model it silently selected, or when my usage will reset. Right now, the limits feel governed by the mating cycles of Venusian Quarktaschen, your X posting schedule, and whether a sack of rice failed to fall over in China. This morning’s automatic migration from Codex 26.803.61601 to ChatGPT 26.810.41047 reopened the same pinned task as Luna/Medium, although the unchanged config explicitly specified Sol/Ultra. Collaboration Mode overrode the user’s choice. At the same time, all four Cloudflare MCP connections demanded reauthorization. This was not user error. YOUR product FAILED to preserve workflow continuity! But you grin, press RESET, and celebrate another colourful plaster on X. A quota reset does not fix GPT-5.6 turning a ten-line change into a luxury operating system just to print “Hello World.” It does not fix ignored instructions, needless complexity, unstable defaults, or the hours wasted checking whether yesterday’s working setup still works today. Resetting access to a model producing garbage merely gives me more garbage. aybefor you its "Pretty garbage" but fact is, it's still garbage. Your job is product leadership, not social-media pantomime. I do not need another colourful feature, another reset, or another cheerful workaround. I need a professional tool that preserves configuration, authentication and sessions; uses the model I selected; respects scope; and produces the smallest correct solution. Reliability is not a bonus feature at $200 a month. It is the product! So work on it!