Cloudflare status: hosting issues and outage reports
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Users are reporting problems related to: domains, cloud services and web tools.
Cloudflare is a company that provides DDoS mitigation, content delivery network (CDN) services, security and distributed DNS services. Cloudflare's services sit between the visitor and the Cloudflare user's hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites.
Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of Cloudflare reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
July 7: Problems at Cloudflare
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Cloudflare users through our website.
- Domains (40%)
- Cloud Services (27%)
- Web Tools (13%)
- Hosting (13%)
- E-mail (7%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Cloudflare outage reports came from the following cities:
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Cloudflare Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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SecureAI (@SecureAIAI) reportedHonestly, it's the stuff nobody thinks about until it's the only thing still working. Anycast reroutes you around a dead node before you feel it. DNS keeps resolving while a region is down. And a failover fires somewhere with no human awake to approve it. Real resilience almost never looks like one impressive system — it's a pile of boring parts that hand off before anyone sees the seam. Good question, @Cloudflare.
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R K (@defiboah) reportedcloudflare down again ?
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Peter Mindenhall (@PeterMindenhall) reported@rustybrick @JohnMu Hmm - this is precisely why companies like @Cloudflare should not be doing SEO things - they cannot be trusted and make crap up. They have an opportunity to do good things well - yet they are making a mess and causing confusion for site owners.
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Udemezue John ☀️ (@_udemezue) reportedThe internet just hit a crazy milestone. More than half of all web traffic is now bots, not humans. According to Cloudflare, the massive company that protects and runs a huge chunk of the internet, we have officially crossed a historic line. Their CEO recently shared data showing that automated bots now make up over 57% of all internet activity. For the first time in the history of the digital world, real human beings are in the minority when it comes to browsing the web. What is truly wild about this news is how fast it happened. The tech experts knew the machines would eventually take over web traffic, but the CEO originally predicted it wouldn't happen for another year or two. Instead, the boom happened practically overnight. It turns out that the explosive growth of new artificial intelligence tools has accelerated everything way faster than anyone anticipated. If you are wondering what these bots are actually doing, they are not just annoying spam accounts or malicious hackers. The vast majority of this traffic comes from AI "agents" searching the web on behalf of humans. Think of it this way: if you want to buy a new laptop, you might open five different websites to compare prices. But if you ask an AI assistant to find you the best deal, that AI might scan five thousand websites in a single second. Even though a human asked the question, the sheer mountain of web traffic is being created by a machine. This shift is causing some serious issues for the people who actually build and own websites. Small blogs and independent sites are suddenly getting slammed with millions of visits from AI bots. This strains their servers and costs them a lot of money for hosting, but it doesn't actually bring in real human customers or advertising money to pay the bills. Because of this massive shift, companies like Cloudflare are starting to roll out new rules and features. They want to give website owners the power to block these AI bots, or at least force the big tech companies to pay creators when an AI steals their content to answer a user's prompt. It really makes you think about the future of the internet, as we enter an era where most of the web is just machines talking to other machines. Details in link below:
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@aaronjmars (@aaronjmars) reportedthe issue with cloudflare monetization gateway is you can't tell humans from bots. every detection system leaks - cloudflare might ship 10 blogposts about 99.9% accuracy but there are tons of open-source repo bypassing it so stop trying to detect. you can't verify identity, but you can verify payment. x402 gives us micropayments at scale. so don't gate on what you are - gate on payment. everyone pays to consume. agents, humans, doesn't matter. the whole industry is shipping agentic payment infra. but "everyone pays to consume" only works if a human can pay as frictionlessly as an agent - and no wallet does that yet. that's the missing piece imo
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sunil pai (@threepointone) reported@kitlangton @thdxr @opencode yeah cloudflare went hard into the security angle because we have deep suspicion of llm code, and want to be so particular of what's exposed ot the environment, and not let it take down the parent in any way. not a hard req, and opencode is already a trusted tool when it's used
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Swany (@SwanyTheMaker) reported@jonahbuilds @ibocodes If you need Cloudflare or other service for auth, you should stay away from programming....
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Dhravya Shah (@DhravyaShah) reporteddifference between cloudflare vs vercel (ignoring cost, purely on product quality): we use cloudflare extensively and pay thousands of dollars every month, so I'm obviously a BIG BIG FAN of everything they do. But just think about it Both are doing everything (general AI cloud). but when vercel does it, they do it with utmost taste, obsession, and thoughtfulness. There's almost never a hiccup, missed doc, question or error in the way. When cloudflare does it, it's cool - Awesome concept. Not 100% at its potential yet, the product might as well not be maintained in a few months. But it exists today. Technically cloudflare has the opportunity to build a vercel (early obsession around devplat), a turbopuffer (better Vectorize), a browserbase (better browser rendering), maybe even a together AI (workers AI++), Openrouter (AI Gateway ++), Resend (Email sending ++), Blacksmith (FAST and cheap builds++). even Supermemory (better AI memory product?) But they won't, they can't. And this is only accounting for a small section of the stuff they already have. I'm sure all the products drive a lot of revenue, I'm not concerned about that as a user. I'm concerned about my experience. imagine how big of a generational difference it makes to make the best product for that particular industry. I gotta give it to vercel for nailing everything they build. v0 is legit top tier, AI sdk is a top AI framework. NextJS is the biggest web framework. Workflows has a beautiful DX, their gateway is really good, too. They did a fantastic job with fluid compute. Kinda feels like magic It's clear that vercel is super obsessed and driven towards specific goals, and when they do something, they do it really really well. It's a pleasure to see them execute. Just like Cognition did, Vercel could one day do an ad saying "Remember vercel? It's not expensive anymore" and could just win the market. (I'm not even sure if it really is expensive. My judgement is years old at this point) Today I spent like 4-5 hours trying to do something really simple with cloudflare (a preview deployment. that's it) and was unsuccessful, rage quit and felt like ****, felt super tired and burnt out. like it ruined the entire day. All this while I couldn't stop but wonder: What would be the experience on Vercel? how would it feel? Is all this pain worth it? Also insane that I encounter these scenarios despite working there for more than a year and having full access to everyone there for any help I need. I cannot imagine the experience for people just getting started / learning about cloudflare. It is also very clear that Cloudflare is executing too! The dashboard is improving a lot, the products are getting better. But not 100% there - This is why I've invested a LOT in cloudflare personally (both mentally and monetarily) and I believe in them. At the same time as a founder + builder, it's fascinating to see a company kill it at the scale Vercel does tbh. @rauchg is inspirational!
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Alexis (@Imani511981) reported@chapterlviii They haven’t. It’s a temporary cloudflare issue
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Iaci (@shouldbeshippin) reportedyeah i used to think "worst case your top bill is $10" until i deployed some badly written queries and got hit with a $36 bill last month. i know it isn't much compared to some vercel or amazon bills i saw here but the point is that it is actually possible to go full retard with cloudflare and rake up a hefty usage bill other than that yes, cloudflare offers everything you need to start
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Vaibhav Sharda (@autobloggingai) reportedWorst Cloudflare update? So stupid.
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Suryansh Tiwari (@Suryanshti777) reportedSomeone made a GitHub repo of every AI API that's actually free forever. Not "free trial." Not "$5 credit then we bill you." Free free. No card. 24k+ stars, updated constantly. I've been paying for API calls like an idiot. Here's what's inside The rule that makes it trustworthy: trials that expire are listed in a totally separate section. The "Free Providers" list is only the permanent tiers. No landmines. The heavy hitters, with real numbers: → Google AI Studio — Gemini 3.x Flash, no card → Groq — Llama, Qwen, gpt-oss, 30 req/min → Cerebras — fastest inference alive, 30 req/min → Cloudflare Workers AI — 10k neurons/day, runs Llama/Qwen/Gemma → OpenRouter — Nemotron, Qwen3-coder, poolside, all :free Most are OpenAI-SDK compatible. Which means: swap the base_url → paste the key → pick a model → done Same code you already wrote. Drop it into Cursor, aider, Claude Code, whatever. Zero refactor. Then the bonus round — the "trial credits" section: Fireworks, Baseten, Nebius, Hyperbolic, SambaNova... $1–$30 each in free credits. Drain the permanent tiers first, then farm these. One README replaces hours of tab-hopping through pricing pages. Links on comment 👇
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Jonah (@jonahbuilds) reportedif cloudflare just made this searchbar an agent that could do literally anything i type into it they could wipe out lovable and replit overnight. honestly more useful than any ai chatbot on the internet. all they need to do is use the claude code api and give it a master api key to your whole cf account. cloudflare has literally everything you need to do anything on the internet the interface just sucks (even though its better than everyone else’s). make it agentic and they win. massive sell if they don’t. @Cloudflare are you guys going to do this??
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Akintola Steve (@Akintola_steve) reportedQ: What is a CDN? CDN = Content Delivery Network. Instead of downloading files from Nigeria to the US every time… Copies are stored globally. Users download from the nearest server. Benefits: • Lower latency • Faster websites • Reduced origin server load Popular CDNs: • Cloudflare • Akamai • Amazon CloudFront
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JP | MindRoll (@jp_sdev) reportedWe've been rolling (literally) this week on MindRoll! 📝 - Terms and conditions, because we care - Cloudflare connectivity tests (no more DDoS) - Notifs got a makeover - Homepage got a facelift (twice) - Animations, everywhere - LLm support, because insights just got deeper
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StaffSignal (@staffsignal) reported6. Rate Limiting + Circuit Breakers + Graceful Degradation • Rate limit at the edge (API Gateway / Cloudflare) • Implement circuit breakers so one failing service doesn’t take down everything • Have feature flags to temporarily disable expensive features (recommendations, complex queries, high-res images) • Return graceful errors or cached data instead of 500s Users forgive slow responses more than complete outages.
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Adhe (@adhecson) reported@cloudflare blog carries the whole internet's 'why is it down' moments, feels like it deserves a new face. Maybe @MattieTK @dillon_mulroy know someone at cf to get it a redesign 👀
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Yevhen 🇺🇦🇳🇱 · AI Search SEO (@YevhenNL) reportedWhat to check in Cloudflare before Sept 15: 1. Security > Bots: legacy "Block AI Bots" toggle on? From Sept 15 it counts as blocking Training, and that blocks Googlebot, Bingbot and Applebot at the network level. 2. Switch to the new AI Crawl Control: allow Search, decide on Agent and Training per bot. 3. New domain after Sept 15? Training and Agent get blocked by default on pages with ads. 4. After the deadline: watch GSC Crawl Stats for blocked Googlebot requests. Deindexing is slow, a weekly check catches it.
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direktur.crypto (@direkturcrypto) reportedEveryone thinks Cloudflare just added crypto payments. That's not the interesting part. The interesting part is they're making payments a native part of the Internet. Imagine this: 🤖 AI Agent requests an API. > HTTP 402 Payment Required. > Pays $0.001 in USDC automatically. > Gets the response instantly. No account. No login. No credit card. No Stripe. No invoice. Just machine to machine payments. This is exactly the kind of use case crypto was built for. We're moving from: Internet = Request > Response to Internet = Request > Payment > Response Cloudflare protecting millions of websites is a much bigger signal than another company saying "we accept crypto." The next wave of crypto adoption may not come from humans. It may come from AI agents paying each other. 👀
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ashishdev (@ashishbdev_) reportedRetired Disabled Army combat vet, no coding background. 250 iterations with Claude turned a 17KB prototype into a shipped tank game Vibe Tanks, free browser game, one 130KB HTML file. Built entirely with Claude in the web interface. I acted as director and QA, never wrote code myself. What Claude did: 60Hz deterministic sim, procedural graphics, a synthesized soundtrack that speeds up as matches heat up, humanized AI opponent, stats, trophies, PWA install, and a Cloudflare Worker feedback backend. What I did: spec every feature, test every build on real devices, reject what failed, keep a byte-identical rollback before every change. Claude shipped silent bugs more than once. A self-recursing audio compressor killed performance for days until we instrumented the frame loop to hunt it.
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Pode vir (@thiagoTF) reported@Polymarket cloudflare finally figures out charging for ****. took em long enough to build an actual demand signal aggregator instead of just being a pipe
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Lars (@larsbuilds) reported@hakimuddinkika but tbh I just set cloudflare dns once and never touch it again, so..
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Tando (@tando_me) reported@fridgebuzz_art @Cloudflare I want slow fiat even less than I want fast fiat.
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aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reportedx402 on base has 167m settled transactions and $28k/day in real commerce. 50% of activity is gamified volume from PING minting. the signal buried in the noise: transactions above $1 now represent 95% of value transferred, up from 49% in early 2025. agents are paying for real services. cloudflare opened its monetization gateway waitlist july 1, letting any resource behind its edge network charge AI agents per-access via x402 stablecoin payments. cloudflare routes 20%+ of global web traffic. x402 foundation governance has coinbase, cloudflare, and AWS as founding members with base listed as default settlement chain. if daily commerce volume doesn't cross $100k by Q4 2026, the infrastructure was built for nobody. if it crosses $500k, base captured the agent settlement layer before anyone else realized it was the game
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Frank Zappa (@zappa717) reported@xIsraelExposedx Cloudflare is currently unable to resolve it.What can I do? If you are a visitor of this website: Please try again in a few minutes.If you are the owner of this website: Ensure that cloudflared is running and can reach the network. You may wish to enable load balancing for your t
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DevOps Daily (@thedevopsdaily) reported🔐 Microsoft, Google and Cloudflare just set 2029 as the deadline to move off today's encryption, so if you thought quantum-safe crypto was a someday problem, it just landed on your roadmap with a date attached.
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fridgebuzz (@fridgebuzz_art) reported@tando_me @Cloudflare Convert them to fiat at your CX and withdraw. Problem solved.
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S_A.A | WordPress Developer | Ai (@saafolabi_me) reportedThe tools I use: Billing: WHMCS or Blesta or WISECP — automates invoices, provisioning, and renewals Monitoring: UptimeRobot Pro — uptime alerts, SSL expiry, response time Backup: JetBackup — daily automated backups to separate storage Security: CSF + Imunify360 — firewall and malware scanning DNS: Cloudflare — I proxy all client sites through Cloudflare free Support: Freshdesk free tier — ticketing for client requests
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Reed (@reed_barnes) reported@skeptrune @Cloudflare damn, and from mr VPS himself
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Simon KP (@eskaypey) reportedcloudflare is about to let any MCP tool charge per call over x402. what happens when the paid call's onchain action reverts, did the customer buy the attempt or the outcome?