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• Todd

  

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  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.

   

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• hypersoniq

  

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  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.

  Have an EXCELlent day!
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  no worries, typical cloudfare nonsense

  
• Todd

  

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  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.

   

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• wander73

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Todd on Nov 18, 2025

  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.

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

                                        "  Good Luck !!!!! > Insure 5/0's "
• wander73

  

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

  i agree with you.   I can't stand google for certain reasons.
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  Thanks Todd!
• CDanaT

  

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  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.
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  Quote: Originally posted by Todd on Nov 18, 2025

  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.

  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. 

  

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• Todd

  

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  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.

   

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• Ranett

  

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  Many sites are dealing with this.

  
• Todd

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Ranett on Nov 18, 2025

  Many sites are dealing with this.

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

   

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• Todd

  

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  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 the impact that we caused.

  Transparency about what happened matters, and we plan to share a breakdown with more details in a few hours. In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack.

  That issue, impact it caused, and time to resolution is unacceptable. Work is already underway to make sure it does not happen again, but I know it caused real pain today. The trust our customers place in us is what we value the most and we are going to do what it takes to earn that back.

   

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• righttimehitt

  

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  Most likely the state lotteries  are scheming something up again.