What is Cloudflare and how does it affect your work?
18 november 2025 в 19:13
Most internet users had never even heard of Cloudflare until Tuesday, November 18th. Trying to load X.com (formerly known as Twitter), Canva.com, and other online tools, they encountered a confusing message: «Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to continue». So, what is Cloudflare and how does it affect your everyday work life?
Less than a month ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down, causing a global internet outage that affected banks, airlines, and other major businesses at the end of October.
Here’s everything you need to know about Cloudflare, its purpose, and the outage.
At the time of publication, people are still seeing errors when trying to load any system supported by Cloudflare, including X.com and Canva.
Cloudflare is a content delivery network and cybersecurity provider. The company is based in San Francisco, California, and specializes in cybersecurity, DDoS attack mitigation, reverse proxies, and domain name services.
Since Cloudflare is a cybersecurity provider, X likely uses the network for this purpose. X’s CEO Elon Musk has not yet publicly commented on the Cloudflare outage.
Yes, for many users of X.com, Canva, and other platforms supported by Cloudflare, the system is still not working. On its status page, Cloudflare acknowledged that it was experiencing an «internal service disruption» early on the morning of November 18th.
«Some services may be intermittently impacted», - the company noted around 8:30 AM Eastern Time. «We are focused on restoring service. We will update information as we work to resolve the issue. Stay tuned for updates».
Cloudflare announced that a «fix» had been implemented, but the company is still «monitoring» for potential issues throughout the day.
«The fix has been implemented, and we believe the incident is now resolved», - the Cloudflare status page indicated shortly after 9:00 AM Eastern Time. «We continue to monitor for errors to ensure all services return to normal»
Less than a month ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down, causing a global internet outage that affected banks, airlines, and other major businesses at the end of October.
Here’s everything you need to know about Cloudflare, its purpose, and the outage.
At the time of publication, people are still seeing errors when trying to load any system supported by Cloudflare, including X.com and Canva.
Cloudflare is a content delivery network and cybersecurity provider. The company is based in San Francisco, California, and specializes in cybersecurity, DDoS attack mitigation, reverse proxies, and domain name services.
Since Cloudflare is a cybersecurity provider, X likely uses the network for this purpose. X’s CEO Elon Musk has not yet publicly commented on the Cloudflare outage.
Yes, for many users of X.com, Canva, and other platforms supported by Cloudflare, the system is still not working. On its status page, Cloudflare acknowledged that it was experiencing an «internal service disruption» early on the morning of November 18th.
«Some services may be intermittently impacted», - the company noted around 8:30 AM Eastern Time. «We are focused on restoring service. We will update information as we work to resolve the issue. Stay tuned for updates».
Cloudflare announced that a «fix» had been implemented, but the company is still «monitoring» for potential issues throughout the day.
«The fix has been implemented, and we believe the incident is now resolved», - the Cloudflare status page indicated shortly after 9:00 AM Eastern Time. «We continue to monitor for errors to ensure all services return to normal»
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