Cloudflare Outage on November 18, 2025: A Global Internet Disruption – Impacts, Causes, Benefits, and the Risks of Dependency
On November 18, 2025, at approximately 11:48 UTC, the internet experienced a seismic jolt. Cloudflare, the ubiquitous backbone powering millions of websites, apps, and services, suffered a major global outage that rippled across the web like a digital earthquake. Users attempting to access platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, League of Legends, and even parts of Downdetector itself were met with error messages, loading screens that never resolved, and a frustrating silence from their favorite online destinations
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