When the “Supercar of the Internet” Breaks Down: Why Cloudflare’s Outage Took Half the Web With It

If Cloudflare were a high-performance armored supercar that protects and powers the internet, then today is the day its dashboard lit up with a critical error light—and the entire fleet behind it stalled at once.

🔶 What kind of “car” is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare acts like a multi-function armored vehicle sitting between users and your real server:

• Bulletproof windshield → Filters attacks and blocks DDoS
• Heavy protective body → Hides your server’s real IP
• Turbocharged engine → CDN that speeds up images, videos, assets
• Almost free fuel → Easy to use, powerful, and for most sites, free

It’s powerful, convenient, reliable—so over 90% of modern websites rely on Cloudflare as their shield.

🔶 So what happens when this car… breaks down?

Just like a supercar with an ECU chip failure, one tiny malfunction can shut down the entire system.

Cloudflare experienced an internal global issue, and when the “car” died, every website sitting inside it got stuck:

• Streaming sites froze
• Games couldn’t authenticate
• Mobile apps lost connection
• ChatGPT struggled to load
• E-commerce sites timed out

Why?

When Cloudflare fails, user requests can’t pass through the protection layer to reach the origin server. Everything becomes unreachable.

🔶 Is there a temporary fix?

There is—but it’s like removing the armored shell and driving a bare-bones car into a battlefield:

• Point DNS directly to the origin server
• No DDoS protection
• No firewall
• No CDN speed boost
• Bandwidth can explode under high traffic

It works for emergencies but is extremely risky for big websites.

🔶 Conclusion

Cloudflare is the “supercar” carrying most of the internet.
But even a supercar can break down—and when it does, the entire convoy behind it stalls.

So if your favorite website isn’t loading today, relax—
it’s not your device, not your internet, not the website.

It’s just the “Internet’s supercar” in the garage for repairs.

Everything will return to normal soon

From: Jennykitchenshop