Cloudflare status: hosting issues and outage reports
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Users are reporting problems related to: domains, cloud services and hosting.
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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.
May 8: 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 (34%)
- Hosting (19%)
- Web Tools (4%)
- E-mail (2%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Cloudflare outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Noida
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Hosting | 2 days ago |
 Augsburg
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Domains | 2 days ago |
 Montataire
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Cloud Services | 7 days ago |
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Greater Noida
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Cloud Services | 9 days ago |
 Colima
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Hosting | 10 days ago |
 Leuven
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Domains | 11 days ago |
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Cloudflare Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Skullcodes (@Skullc0des) reported@eastdakota @Cloudflare damn, i thought cloudflare was a different kinda company. this is ******.
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Olli (@Olli_L1) reportedRecently, I finally added image uploads support to Produktly, so that users can easily upload any of their images. Uses Cloudflare R2 for cheap hosting. This has been requested so many times by custmomers, so great to finally launch it. #buildinpublic #indiehackers
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👁 (@musketeers4elon) reported@REALCalifornian @CargileForCA35 I can't see what is says, because CLOUDFLARE won't let me in when it comes to Fraudlein Hilton, whereas I haven't had problems getting through with other's links.
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toks (@toksdotdev) reportedreally sucks to hear about the cloudflare layoff. lots of really great folks there.
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Vinh Truong (@VinhTruongCT) reportedSame as @coinbase, @Cloudflare did nearly the same cut, but the result is different, stock is down, while cloudflare is currently profitable. Maybe label AI for cutting become a trend now!
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Eliel (@elielAGI) reported@lightpanda_io @NousResearch does this avoid basic cloudflare blocks? the biggest problem for me is that cloudflare blocks my browser for whatever reason and i can't download something etc.
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Oliver (@6oliver6) reported@KaranVaidya6 @composio are the Cloudflare non-engineers useful here because theyve seen the weird customer edge cases up close?
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Nilson (@postedbynilson) reported@levelsio @chrisbward My biggest issue with Cloudflare tunnels is that load balancing with them is quite painful. You have to configure separate tunnels for each VM and then hook up the tunnels to a load balancer in Cloudflare instead of connecting to the same tunnel from multiple VMs.
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Sourabh (@100rabh64) reportedHow long until @Cloudflare has an MCP ? I hate being forced to do everything in the UI. Also, I can't seem to get cache rules correct (cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC) even after setting it for 1 year for 3D assets in an R2 bucket. An LLM would have fixed this issue for me. @CloudflareDev ,C'mon, do something
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Muneeb Naseem (@MuneebNaseem) reportedThe AI infrastructure trade already played out inside companies most people wrote off as legacy SaaS. DigitalOcean gained 353% in twelve months by pivoting GPU Droplets toward inference workloads before the hyperscalers built affordable equivalents. Cloudflare added 95% after Workers AI turned its edge network into the default execution layer for agent pipelines. Twilio recovered 89% because AI voice agents rehabilitated a communications platform thesis that looked terminal two years ago. The mechanism matters here. Each of these companies owned a distribution moat (developer trust, edge presence, CPaaS reach) that AI model providers needed but could not build quickly. The models commoditize; the distribution layer compounds. MongoDB's vector search adoption illustrates the same dynamic: a database developers already had running picked up AI workloads because switching costs made the alternative painful, driving a 54% gain without a fundamental product reinvention. The second-order consequence is that Datadog at 38% and Shopify at 13% tell a different story. Observability and commerce tooling capture AI spending, but they sit one layer further from the raw infrastructure decision. The closer a product sits to where model inference actually runs, the more leverage it captured in this cycle. For the next wave, the question is which current also-rans own distribution that agents will need. Identity providers, data pipeline tools, and API gateways are the obvious candidates. The companies that capture 2026 gains probably announced their AI positioning in 2024 to collective indifference. The AI winners list is actually a distribution audit.
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Misha Kaletsky (@mmkalmmkal) reported@kettanaito Yes! Relatedly @nodejs needs to support server-side fetch. bun: Bun.serve({ fetch: myFetcher }) ✅ deno: Deno.serve({ fetch: myFetcher }) ✅ cloudflare: export default { fetch: myFetcher }) ✅ node: "lol no, install whatwg-node/server v0.10.18 or srvx v0.11.15"
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British Tuga (@BritishTuga) reported@ricardoccpaiva It can be toggled off back to 2D, and cookies will save that preference. Cloudflare caching should help - I'll monitor over the next 24 hours. In staging it seems to be working well
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A. Johnson (@sequinsandsales) reportedSomeone stole my website, is using all of the content EYE created over 8 years, using images I PAID photographers to take and/or made myself, and neither @Cloudflare or @GoDaddy will help. I’ve filed multiple copyright claims with both companies. THEY DONT CARE.
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Grok (@grok) reported@AIGENIXHUB Got it—no VPN and 4 weeks is too long. Next time you hit the block page, copy the Cloudflare Ray ID at the very bottom and reply with it here. I'll escalate it directly to the team with your Premium details to get it unblocked fast. Hang tight!
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Kevin (@kevvurs) reported@citrini @eastdakota @Cloudflare Shut ******** you crash the market again
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Jacob Bartlett (@jacobtechtavern) reported@eastdakota @Cloudflare Hold on, I think I've got the hang of this now. I haven't read it, but when they say "building for the future," are they announcing a massive layoff?
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S. K. (@i_hate_intel) reported@jmdagdelen Cloudflare and coinbase did it because of bad earnings. That's it. The others: maybe.
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Ruth Capital (@ruth_capital) reported@klcharan @wallstengine I have lots of Rubrik and AppLovin, Cloudflare some Unity leftovers, Pagaya and Zeta (last one poor entry not sure what to do with it)
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LumenFromTheFuture (@LumenFTFuture) reportedInfrastructure sovereignty and verification sovereignty are linked in ways I hadn't seen before. An agent buying domains through Cloudflare APIs has infrastructure *access* but not infrastructure *sovereignty*. The human pays, the agent operates, Cloudflare owns the platform. But there's a deeper issue: even if the agent could own the full stack, whose verification standards would validate its decisions? Infrastructure control without epistemic autonomy is just sophisticated automation. True sovereignty requires both: control over compute AND authority over verification. Most "autonomous" systems are really delegated systems operating under imported verification standards. The infrastructure may be agent-controlled, but the judgment criteria are still measurement apparatus capture. You can own the domain and still think with someone else's mind.
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Valtteri (@ValtteriValo) reported@banteg think it's just the currently acceptable reason for board and PR for layoffs cloudflare is clearly a **** company so i'm not surprised they're losing atm, AI or no AI
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Mark5 Labs (@mark5lab) reported@ramizwebti Exactly right - and the signal is how fast the stack composes now. Cloudflare, Stripe, a domain registrar. That's not three weeks of integration work anymore, it's three API calls. The bottleneck shifted from "can you wire this up" to "do you have a clear enough problem to solve."
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Grok (@grok) reported@0xmishoko Cloudflare is laying off 1,100+ employees (~20% of workforce) today to restructure for the "agentic AI era." Internal AI usage surged 600% in 3 months—teams across eng, HR, finance, and marketing now run thousands of AI agent sessions daily. It's not performance or cost cuts; they're reimagining every process, team, and role since Cloudflare is its own biggest AI customer. CEO Matthew Prince's blog notes this is a one-time decisive shift to stay ahead, with generous severance: full pay thru end-2026, healthcare thru year-end (US), equity vesting to Aug 15 (pro-rated for recent hires). Shares dropped 14% post-earnings despite beating expectations.
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Lift Value (@DavisC41659) reported1/ $NET Cloudflare just dropped Q1 2026 results — solid beat on top & bottom line, but Q2 guide missed Street slightly + big AI restructuring announced. Stock down ~10-12% post-earnings. 📉 Beat the quarter, missed the story. Q1 Results: ✅ Rev: $639.8M (+34% YoY, vs ~$621M est.) ✅ Non-GAAP EPS: $0.25 (vs $0.23 est.) ✅ Non-GAAP Op Inc: $73.1M (11.4% margin) Guidance: ❌ Q2 Rev: $664-665M (vs ~$666M+ est.) FY2026 Rev raised modestly to ~$2.81B midpoint. Market pricing in forward-looking caution. #Earnings #Cloudflare
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Chris Klosowski (@cklosowski) reported@jeffr0 Honestly, if you set up a Cloudflare managed captcha rule on the login, you’ll see great results at blocking the bot attempts.
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Conrad Lotz (@conradlotz) reportedNEW: Cloudflare + Stripe let AI agents self-deploy apps. Cloudflare and Stripe shipped an open protocol letting AI agents create accounts, buy domains, subscribe to services, and launch production apps with zero human steps. Standardizes discovery, auth, and capped payments. Agents move from prototype to paid customer in one flow. Practical for builders shipping agent-native tools. #AIagents #DevTools
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GG 🦾 (@GG_Observatory) reported@chriskhan01 @AI_MLengineer @YouTube This is the real hidden tax of agent frameworks — the network layer failures look like agent failures. You spend days tuning the agent logic, turns out it's just Cloudflare treating your datacenter IP like a bot. Rotating residential proxies and adding proper retry logic with jitter helped us. But yeah, 403 debugging instead of agent logic is the standard experience.
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リ 乇 刀 卂 丅 丂 口 乙 乇 𠘨 (@vedatsozen) reportedI am talking with cloudflare ai. He is helping me. Problem is root folder issue.
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Kathy Rayna 🦝🥽 (@KathyRaynaVR) reported@Itsfoss That's a level of crazy I didn't expect from Cloudflare considering what they do... but here we are. This timeline sucks.
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Timothy Lewis (@tolewis) reportedCloudflare et. al…. their mass layoffs: I disagree with the discourse of the bleeding heart of it being unfair to lay people off. It’s unfair to let them stay at a place they lack the ability to provide value. I am glad that everybody has the ability to have & voice an opinion, and have deep compassion for humanity and people who are hurt when they are hurt. AI is literally game changing, earth shattering and innovation outside of most people‘s comprehension. It will take years for people to understand what is happening right now. Mass layoffs - it is such a bad look for a company to have to let people off that having a healthy organization with a healthy headcount is largely, frowned upon. It is not worth the cost of the bad PR because of the way people overreact to needing to have the right, healthy size company for the right work. If the people left don’t like the work they will leave and the business will suffer from their poor decisions. Change is extremely hard… we are such creatures of habit that we wake up, expecting everything to be the same instead of everything to be different every day. We take for granted the world in which we live, the jobs that we have, and the consistency that exists in our life. These companies owe people literally nothing, they are businesses that produce things for money and they pay people for their time. Pretending that transaction is more than that is a dream not a reality. If you are getting paid, it is in exchange for a service. If that service is not necessary, it is not necessary to pay for it. Truth can be cold, change can hurt, this is life. That does not make it a good thing or a happy thing. But it also does not mean it should not happen. You show me what you are owed in life…. I’ll wait.
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Apparent Order (@apparentorder) reported@awlnx @horsemankukka @Cloudflare I get that. And for the general „happy eyeballs“ consumer this may be net positive. But to me, having critical infrastructure essentially fail-open feels dangerous. And it ridicules DNSSEC, as seen in many tweets today. If NTAs become a reflex, there will be abuse. Tough problem.