Cloudflare leaves parts of the internet offline in second major outage within a month

Taylor Bushey

By Taylor Bushey


Published: 05/12/2025

- 09:18

Updated: 05/12/2025

- 09:48

The last outage was on November 18, 2025

  • Cloudflare began experiencing a global outage
  • Canva, Downdetector, and more are affected
  • This is the second outage within a month
  • Its last outage was on November 18, 2025

Canva, Downdetector, and more are down as Cloudflare suffers a second outage within the month.

Website visitors are seeing "500 internet server error" when attempting to visit these sites.


Cloudflare is a global network that helps websites run quickly and safely. It acts as a protective shield between visitors and websites, blocking cyberattacks and speeding up page loading times.

Recognising the outage, the company has confirmed it's experiencing an "internal service degradation."

At the time of writing, the following sites are experiencing an outage as a result of Cloudflare going down:

  • Canva
  • Downdetector
  • Quillbot
  • Fortnite
  • DoorDash

This is the second outage within the month. Its last outage affected Zoom, X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, PayPal, and more.

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