Cloudflare causing disruptions this morning

Reply #22

hypersoniq — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:30:44 GMT

Pushing out extra data. Amazing how fast that happened. I remember when registering a domain name required about 24 hours to propagate to the dns servers.

Reply #21

Elizabeth03 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:55:40 GMT

I have Google and the lottery post site was showing CloudFlare. This was hell trying to log in to the site

Reply #20

Todd — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:31:46 GMT

Here is the final report directly from Cloudflare about the incident this morning. It's quite detailed about exactly how it happened.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

Technical-minded folks may find the details interesting.

Reply #19

Stat$talker — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:12:30 GMT

Ok, Thanks Todd , cause this morning, I'd gotten a couple of strange sign in pages...Thought I'd gotten a virus, but my system checked out ok...

Reply #18

Todd — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:32:06 GMT

According to the Cloudflare status page, as of 12:14 pm Eastern Time the issue is fixed, and they are monitoring closely.

Here is the message from Cloudflare:

Update - We continue to monitor the system through recovery and we are seeing errors and latency return to normal levels. A full post-incident investigation and details about the incident will be made available asap.

Nov 18, 2025 - 17:14 UTC

Reply #17

TheseStars — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:52:45 GMT

It's 11:51 am here in Ohio and I am not having any issues or disruptions.

Reply #16

wander73 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:28:42 GMT

i don't really like aws. seen their conferences. they are so back wards. not even funny.

Reply #15

JADELottery — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:23:42 GMT

https://cnews.link/cloudflare-outage-internet-down

Reply #14

righttimehitt — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:15:31 GMT

Most likely the state lotteries are scheming something up again.

Reply #13

Todd — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:04:05 GMT

We're still seeing intermittent problems.

For people who care about the technical side of things, the Cloudflare Chief Technology Officer (CTO) issued the following statement:

Dane Knecht

@dok2001

I won't mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I apologize for t... [ More ]

Reply #12

Todd — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:18:44 GMT

True! Cloudflare powers approximately 20% of all the websites on the Internet.

Reply #11

Ranett — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:14:00 GMT

Many sites are dealing with this.

Reply #10

Todd — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:10:08 GMT

Cloudflare is acknowledging that there are still some remaining issues they are dealing with, so I think our status here will be mostly up, with intermittent outages. If you see the Cloudflare screen, just refresh until it comes back.

People using Lottery Post on their phone as an icon pinned to the Home screen might need to force-close the Lottery Post app, and then re-open it, as there is no native refresh button when using LP as a Home screen app.

Reply #9

grwurston — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:59:52 GMT

It's still up and down. Was here a couple minutes ago it was fine, and when I clicked on the discussion forum it went down again.

Reply #8

CDanaT — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:59:25 GMT

Same here..... Mine showed Cloudfare Nashville was having a server problem.

The Powerball site was fine.

Texas Lottery site was fine

Tennessee Lottery was not accessible due to Cloudfare as well.

Reply #7

GHL1234 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:52:12 GMT

Thanks Todd

Reply #6

wander73 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:52:07 GMT

i agree with you. I can't stand google for certain reasons.

Reply #5

Timewalkerv — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:50:34 GMT

Get off google, microsoft edge got me here, no problem.

Reply #4

wander73 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:50:18 GMT

i have hostupon for my site and shopify has another hosting. it happens. internet is very scary with whats been happening.

you're absolutely correct. there is nothing you can do. its up to them. I have had experiences in the past, minor.

Reply #3

Todd — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:47:06 GMT

Cloudflare is reporting the issue as now fixed (as of 4 minutes ago), but still seeing intermittent issues. Hopefully the worst of it is behind us.

Reply #2

hearsetrax — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:43:41 GMT

no worries, typical cloudfare nonsense

Reply #1

hypersoniq — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:41:52 GMT

Thanks for the info! I saw the cloudfare 500 internal server error splash screen of death earlier this morning. It took out sites globally. The trade off of hundreds of replicated nodes for the rare service provider blackout still seems like a better way than the single point of failure physical server hosting.

Cloudflare causing disruptions this morning

Todd — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:51:17 GMT

For anyone wondering why Lottery Post has been offline sporadically for the last hour, it is due to the same global Cloudflare issue that has affected countless websites this morning.

There's really nothing I can do at this point. I just need to wait for the Cloudflare engineers to figure out out all the causes and fix them.

Cloudflare is a service provider for websites, and when it has problems (which is rare) many websites and internet-based services around the world go offline.