Cloudflare Radar records 49 Internet disruptions in Q3 2026
Original title: What took the Internet offline in Q3 2026
Exam shutdowns in Iraq and power failures, including large drops in Honduras, Cuba, and Sevastopol, led the quarter’s outages.
Cloudflare’s Q3 2026 Radar review attributes 49 annotated Internet disruptions mainly to government-directed shutdowns, power failures, and natural disasters. Shutdowns were the most frequent category, driven by exam-related cuts in Iraq, while power failures hit countries including Cuba, Honduras, and Ukraine. The post also covers storm damage in Guam and a Phoenix data-center cooling failure that nearly wiped out traffic from Namecheap.
Unconfirmed: The published excerpt cuts off during the Japan earthquake account, so later incidents are not fully shown.
- Nineteen incidents were government-directed, including 18 exam shutdowns in Iraq.
- Power outages totaled 14 across 10 countries; natural disasters accounted for five.
- Honduras HTTP traffic fell 63% for about three hours on September 10.
- Cuba’s power-related traffic drops ranged from 18% to 59%.
- A July 5 Sevastopol blackout cut HTTP traffic by 98% for eight hours.
- Vendors
- Cloudflare
- Products
- Cloudflare Radar
- Victims
- Namecheap
- Organizations
- Guam Power Authority
From the original article
7 min read at blog.cloudflare.com
An examination of global Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare Radar during the third quarter of 2026. This review analyzes how power failures, natural disasters, and government shutdowns impacted network connectivity and traffic.
By Lai Yi Ohlsen · blog.cloudflare.com
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