Several important websites around the world, including in Romania, are facing serious operational problems following a major failure registered at Cloudflare, one of the largest internet infrastructure companies.
UPDATE The DNSC website is also down
On Tuesday, around 15:00, the DNSC website also went down, but the institution managed to inform that it was not a cyber attack that caused the downfall of several websites, they were unavailable due to problems with Cloudflare services.
“During the day today, several websites (including the DNSC website, but also the websites of some media entities or social networks) became unavailable due to service delivery issues with Cloudflare. The reported issues have been fixed in the meantime”DNSC informed.
Cloudflare is a company that provides website security and performance enhancement services by acting as a reverse proxy that directs traffic between visitors and a website’s server. Because of this intermediary role, the unavailability of the company’s services causes errors when accessing the websites under management, without signaling a problem with the infrastructure of the respective site.
“DNSC submits that this event was due to operational errors and is NOT the result of a cyber attack. Technical analysis has not identified any elements that indicate a systems compromise“, informed the institution.
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Outages affect not only regular websites, but also large platforms. Spotify and X (formerly Twitter) are among the services experiencing glitches and outages.
Cloudflare, a company that provides content delivery network (CDN) services and cloud security solutions to millions of web pages, is considered a critical infrastructure of the Internet worldwide, so its problems automatically generate chain effects.
In Romania, important websites of some press agencies such as Agerpres, News and Mediafax are not working at the time of publishing this news.
The websites of online publications such as ziare.com, antena3.ro or g4media.ro are also non-functional.
“Cloudflare is aware of an issue that may affect multiple customers and is investigating. Additional details will be provided as more information becomes available.
Our support portal provider is currently experiencing issues and therefore customers may experience errors when viewing or responding to support requests. We are working with our third party vendor to understand the full impact and mitigate this issue. More updates will follow soon”, reports the company from the United States.
As of November 18, 2025, Cloudflare reported that it is performing scheduled maintenance operations in certain data centers (Los Angeles – LAX and Atlanta – ATL).
“During these works, traffic can be redirected, which may cause a slight increase in latency (delay) for end users in the affected regions.“, the company says.
