Cloudflare Is Down Again (Yes, Again)

Another day, another outage—Cloudflare appears to be having issues, affecting multiple sites and services worldwide.

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Corey Noles
Corey Noles
Apr 7, 2026
1 minute read
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Cloudflare is currently experiencing another round of service disruptions, impacting websites and applications across the globe. Users are reporting intermittent connectivity issues, slow load times, and in some cases, complete downtime. Developers everywhere are once again questioning their life choices and refreshing status dashboards at unhealthy intervals.

Initial reports suggest problems with edge network routing, though no official root cause has been confirmed yet. This marks yet another reminder that even the internet’s backbone has its “off days.” Teams are actively investigating, and updates are expected as more information becomes available.

In the meantime, many sites are either partially functional or showing error pages that users have now memorized.

Corey Noles

Corey Noles is the Host of The Neuron: AI Explained podcast and Managing Editor of AI and Experimental Content at TechnologyAdvice, where he leads the charge in testing and refining emerging content strategies across the company's portfolio.

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