Cloudflare Outage

[lparry]

Happy friday!

 

[6Foot3]

Freshdesk is down because Cloudflare is down.

 

Going to be a quiet Friday.

[6Foot3]

Just now, alordcharlie said:

Freshdesk is down because Cloudflare is down.

 

Going to be a quiet Friday.

[lparry]

2 minutes ago, alordcharlie said:

Freshdesk is down because Cloudflare is down.

 

Going to be a quiet Friday.

Exactly how I first noticed, then went to check downdetector (which is also down).

 

Had to go to https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ as downdetector's downdectector is detecting downdetector is up while downdetector is down.

[Sylv3r]

Freshdesk and Sign-In-App causing us issues up to now.

[machy]

Its an interesting outage, 

All my personal stuff is fine (and so is edugeek it seems)

 

But all the school sites in the trust are down...

[Sirbendy]

Sparx is aware of issues as well, I've just had a call to say half the kids can't login.

[6Foot3]

There's something quite funny about Down Detector being down

[drutt]

Perfect time for a mid morning nap

[6Foot3]

Hold it out

 

[Fazza]

[6Foot3]

Freshdesk is back.

 

Nap time over.

[lparry]

Back to work 😒

[machy]

Workers is having issues now too

May break some random bits of randomness 

[6Foot3]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cge547dwxevt

[itskdog]

There was a Zoom assembly this morning that got caught up in this, too.

 

Was a fun start to the day.

[MrEprise]

This isn't looking good for Cloudflare. How long before Businesses start flocking to other providers for the services they offer?

[machy]

3 minutes ago, MrEprise said:

This isn't looking good for Cloudflare. How long before Businesses start flocking to other providers for the services they offer?

Probably after people move away from us-east-2 

 

As with AWS And Azure, the people who use it seriously are kind of stuck, the cost of migration or complete redundancy is likely far more than half a day a year off outage, and thats even if you can find something that could completely replace said service without also relying on it. 

 

IE Vercel replaces Cloudflare workers, but is more expensive and relies on AWS

 

i do think something needs to be done though, 1 of 4 companies having issues shouldn't break the majority of issues 

[msi_school]

As far as and MBA is concerned if all your competitors are also down it's not an issue. Not that it will seem like this rto any of their IT staff.

[6Foot2]

Found on Reddit:

 

[EBrooke]

4 hours ago, alordcharlie said:

There's something quite funny about Down Detector being down

DownDetector’s Down Detector 😀

[LeMarchand]

We swapped ISP/filter last night so, of course, this led to "The iPads can't get on the internet!" this morning. I asked what they were trying to do and then the address of the site they were trying to access to be told, "I don't know, we just Google it but when we click the site it says something about 500".

 

So you used the internet to find a site but the internet isn't working?

Edited December 5, 2025 by LeMarchand

[machy]

Seems to have been an issue with there remediation for a React Vlun, which explains why it was only some stuff 

 

 

[machy]

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

[DrBeaker]

11 hours ago, drutt said:

Perfect time for a mid morning nap

 

 

Isn't that what most staff, teachers and SLT think we do anyway? 😕 

 

Unlike the caretaker/site team caught napping in the boiler room more than once.

 

 

Edited December 5, 2025 by DrBeaker