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Cloudflare is down: Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API service issues. Immediate workarounds for indie hackers.

BREAKING: Cloudflare Dashboard & API Experiencing Service Issues

Status: INVESTIGATING | Severity: MINOR | Last Updated: NOW

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What's Down & Who's Affected

Cloudflare is currently experiencing partial disruption to:

Cloudflare Dashboard (UI access to manage your domains)

Cloudflare API (programmatic access for automation)

Who this impacts: Developers relying on real-time dashboard access or API calls to manage DNS, SSL, firewall rules, or deployments. Your live traffic is NOT affected—only management/control plane.

Not affected: Edge caching, DDoS protection, SSL termination, and active routing rules continue operating normally.

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Immediate Workarounds (DO THIS NOW)

1. If You Need to Make Changes RIGHT NOW

Use curl/REST clients directly against the Cloudflare API if you have auth tokens saved locally

Check ~/.wrangler/wrangler.toml (Wrangler users)—your authentication tokens are cached

If you deployed code via wrangler deploy before the incident, it's already live. Don't push new changes until dashboard recovers

2. For DNS Changes

Use your domain registrar's DNS panel (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Route53, etc.) to update nameservers if urgent

Wait 5-15 minutes for propagation

Only do this if truly critical—revert once Cloudflare recovers

3. For Monitoring & Status Checks

Check curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/user from terminal (won't work currently, but confirms API status)

Use third-party monitoring: check your DNS resolution on nslookup yourdomain.com or dig yourdomain.com

Your site traffic is routing fine; this is purely a management issue

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How to Check If YOUR Project Is Affected

```bash

Test if your site is still serving

curl -I https://yourdomain.com

Should return 200/301/302 (not 524 or 525)

Check DNS resolution

dig yourdomain.com +short

Should resolve to your origin IP

Test API connectivity (will fail now)

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \ https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones ```

If you get: HTTP 200 on your site = you're fine. Dashboard being down doesn't break active traffic.

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Alternative Tools to Consider (If Migration Needed)

DNS Management: Route53 (AWS), Google Cloud DNS, Bunny CDN

DDoS/WAF: AWS Shield, Akamai, Bunny CDN (cheaper), DigitalOcean Spaces

API-First Alternatives: Bunny CDN API, AWS CloudFront, Fastly

Wrangler Replacement: Deploy to Vercel Edge, AWS Lambda@Edge, or Netlify Edge

*Don't panic-migrate.* Cloudflare typically resolves these in <2 hours. Only switch if this becomes chronic.

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Monitor Recovery Here

Official Status: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ (refresh every 60 seconds)

Twitter/X: @Cloudflare for updates

Your own test: Keep running the curl test above every 5 minutes

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Bottom Line

Your apps are still live and serving traffic. You just can't manage them via dashboard/API right now. Sit tight. Cloudflare's incident response is typically fast for management-plane issues.

Don't make emergency migrations. Don't spam their support. Give it 30 minutes, then reassess.

Keep watching this space. We'll update as status changes.