Today, on December 5, 2025, internet users across the world got a big shock. The system of a company named Cloudflare suddenly went down. This company is a big name in the internet world, which works to make websites load faster and protect them from cyber attacks. Actually, it works like a bridge between the user and the website. But when it went down, millions of websites were affected.
Especially designing sites like Canva and outage tracking websites like Downdetector came to a standstill. People who were working during this time suddenly got an error message on the screen. Many users expressed their anger on social media platform X. If a user’s meeting got cancelled, online shopping came to a standstill. One user even wrote – “Cloudflare is down, so the entire internet seems to be down. When will it be fixed?”
Users expressed anger
One user posted on X- “My entire project has stopped, please improve the company!” At the same time, another user also posted on this matter, ‘How can such a big company go down…they need to fix their system.’ Let us tell you that this is not the first time that Cloudflare has committed such a fraud. There was also a major outage last month in November, in which Spotify, ChatGPT and even former US President Donald Trump’s Truth social platform was shut down for some time. Even then users had expressed their anger in the post.
Today’s outage happened on Cloudflare’s dashboard and API i.e. Application Programming Interface. The company wrote on its status page that “Customers using the Dashboard or Cloudflare API may experience requests that fail and see error messages. We are investigating.” But by the time this statement came, the anger of the users had skyrocketed. Thousands of posts came on X.
Experts said this
Not only this, users on X not only complained but also made memes. Someone was calling Cloudflare “Cloud Fail”, while someone was asking “Will we have to return to offline mode now?” Many users also said that Cloudflare will have to work more on its security and backup systems.
It also affected Indian users, because Cloudflare provides services to many Indian companies. Small and big businesses who use it to protect their websites are worried. According to ET report, experts have said that companies like Cloudflare are the backbone of the Internet. If there is a fault in these, then unrelated websites also fall down. The same thing happened in the previous outage, when songs on Spotify stopped and users were not getting response from ChatGPT. Today the company has said that it is actively investigating, currently the users have got relief. When such problems arise, many questions arise for the company.
