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Cloudflare Global Outage Fixed After Config File Overload

7/17/2026

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Cloudflare suffered a global outage on Tuesday, triggering error messages on websites.
The outage, first reported at 11.48 am London time, was fixed by 2.48 pm after an oversized configuration file overloaded traffic-management software.
Cloudflare disabled its Warp encryption service in London, causing connection-failure messages for local users.
A Cloudflare spokesperson apologized and pledged to learn from the incident after sites such as X and OpenAI experienced increased outages.

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Cloudflare suffered a global outage on Tuesday, triggering error messages on websites.
The outage, first reported at 11.48 am London time, was fixed by 2.48 pm after an oversized configuration file overloaded traffic-management software.
Cloudflare disabled its Warp encryption service in London, causing connection-failure messages for local users.
A Cloudflare spokesperson apologized and pledged to learn from the incident after sites such as X and OpenAI experienced increased outages.