India, Nov. 22 -- The Cloudflare outage of 18 November 2025 revealed just how dependent the digital world has become on a few powerful infrastructure providers. What began as an ordinary software update quickly spread into one of the most disruptive incidents in recent years. For hours, websites and applications worldwide were unreachable, displaying only blank screens or 500-series server errors.

Platforms like X (Twitter), OpenAI's ChatGPT, Canva, and Uber all went down, along with countless smaller services that depend on Cloudflare's network. Analysts later estimated that nearly a quarter of all websites worldwide were affected, an event that exposed the hidden fragility of the internet's underlying structure.

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