Cloudflare Is Down Again - A Good Reminder for All of Us

Looks like Cloudflare is having another 500 error moment, and the internet is feeling it. When a major provider struggles, it’s easy to get frustrated - but outages like this are also a powerful reminder of something every organisation should take seriously:

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)

No platform is immune to failure. Even the biggest players can (and do) go down. The question isn’t “Will an outage happen?” - it’s “How prepared are we when it does?”

Why this matters?

Dependency risk: Relying heavily on third-party services is convenient, until they’re suddenly unavailable. Strong BCP ensures your core operations don’t stop when your providers do.

Resilience over perfection: You can’t prevent 100% of outages, but you can ensure your organisation continues operating with minimal impact.

Clear recovery strategy: A solid DRP allows teams to switch to backups, alternate routes, or secondary systems efficiently, instead of scrambling in the middle of chaos.

Customer trust: How you respond to downtime says more about your organisation than the downtime itself.

Key Takeaway

Cloudflare’s 500 errors might slow things down today, but they serve as a valuable reminder:

Resilience is not built during an outage - it’s built before it happens.

If your BCP and DRP are up to date, tested, and aligned with your business needs, events like this become inconveniences rather than disasters.

Cloudflare is down