Websites back online as Cloudflare issues fix for dashboard issue
The Cloudflare logo appears on a smartphone screen and in the background of a computer screen. Internal server error for this photo illustration in Lviv, Ukraine on November 18, 2025.
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US internet infrastructure company cloud flare On Friday, it said it had released a fix for an issue with the control panel and related apps.
The company’s shares fell as much as 4.5% in premarket trading after its global websites shut down and Cloudflare said it was investigating.
company Issue an update minutes later stating that it had “implemented a fix” and was monitoring the results. Cloudflare shares clawed back some of their losses on the news and were last seen down 2%.
Sites such as outage tracking site Downdetector, professional networking platform LinkedIn, digital currency exchange Coinbase and online publishing platform Substack were among those affected by the issue.
The outage comes less than three weeks after a similar Cloudflare crash caused error messages across the internet; this was an issue the company said was “unacceptable” at the time, given the importance of its services.
Cloudflare’s software is used by many businesses around the world and helps manage and secure traffic for approx. 20% of the internet. Its services include protecting against distributed denial-of-service attacks, in which malicious actors attempt to overload a website’s system with so many traffic requests that it cannot function.
— CNBC’s Annie Palmer contributed to this report.
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