Cloudflare Outage Knocks Dozens of Sites Offline as Bet365 and Uber Eats Users Report Disruptions

Cloudflare acknowledged service disruptions on Friday that left users unable to reach multiple major sites and apps, with customers of bet365 and a popular food delivery service among those affected; it was working to restore service while outage reports climbed and then eased.

Bet365 and other customer-facing services hit during outage

Users reported problems connecting to Bet365 alongside interruptions to a well-known food delivery platform and issues affecting a PC gaming service. The outage produced errors and timeouts for people trying to reach sites and apps that rely on Cloudflare’s infrastructure.

The disruption impacted not only individual consumer-facing services but also the public-facing landing page for the company’s public DNS service, producing access errors that prevented normal page loads.

Timeline, scale and company updates

Cloudflare acknowledged that its services were experiencing issues on Friday and issued an update at 2: 45pm Eastern Time saying work was underway to restore service to affected customers. Outage reports peaked in the early afternoon before beginning to fall later in the day.

Earlier messaging from the company noted it had been performing scheduled maintenance at a Portland data center, though it remained unclear whether that maintenance contributed to the outages. The company later acknowledged that customers were encountering an unusually high number of 403 error messages as the investigation continued.

How this compares with past incidents and what followed

This Friday’s disruption was smaller in scale than a previous outage in November when outage reports reached a substantially higher peak and a wide range of major sites and services lost access. That prior incident affected numerous online platforms, and separate, shorter outages followed in subsequent weeks. On Friday, outage report totals were far lower than in that earlier event, and the company had posted messages addressing the prior incidents on its help account; there had been no post about the Friday outage on that account as of mid-afternoon, with updates coming later in the day.

Impact for users and next steps

Consumers attempting to place wagers on bet365 or order from the affected food delivery app encountered errors or timeouts while the outage was active. Some users also experienced trouble with a PC gaming service during the disruption. The company stated it was continuing to work on restoring service to impacted customers, and updates indicated service restoration efforts were ongoing.

Details remain subject to change as the company’s investigation continues. Recent updates indicate progress toward restoring normal operations, but the full scope and root cause were still being clarified during the day.

Takeaways for businesses and users

• Reliance on shared infrastructure can produce wide-ranging downstream impacts when a core provider experiences issues.
• Service outages may manifest as error messages, blocked pages, or timeouts across a mix of consumer and enterprise platforms.
• Communication and transparent status updates from infrastructure providers can help users and customers track restoration progress.

For now, users should refresh affected pages and try reconnecting as the provider continues restoration efforts; details may evolve as the investigation proceeds.