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# Don’t Sneeze The Internet Might Blow Over!

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Seth Goldstein

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November 18, 2025

Sol 3978

![Sneezing male lion](https://sethgoldstein.me/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/4f41ed4e-7d16-45a8-a3c6-9d41dbd9b47b.webp)

***Update: Cloudflare is back online after more than 2 hrs out of commission! Yikes!***

This morning (at least in the US) [Cloudflare a major infrastructure company that secures a good portion of the Web with its services and tools went down](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/cloudflare-down-outage-traffic-spike-x-chatgpt.html)
. This brought a big portion of the web to a standstill.

We’re still waiting for them to fix it.

This just goes to shows how fragile the Web really is. My God! Amazon Web Services’ east coast data center goes down and takes a good swath of the Net with it. Now Cloudflare.

Scary.

I guess patience is needed and that’s a virtue. 🙄🤪

Good luck everyone!

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