A global outage of Cloudflare's Workers KV backend storage service caused any login attempts to the admin panel of the Photo Sharing Service to fail. This was not being used at the time so impact is effectively zero.

More info on the underlying outage: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-service-outage-june-12-2025/

Example screenshot from above article: https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/zkvhlag99gkb/5sGFmSsNHD9yXwJ9Ea5jov/78349be4318cb738cdd72643e69f7bdb/BLOG-2847_1.png

This issue was not investigated as I was not home to experience any outages of any infrastructure powering the Photo Sharing Service therefore cannot determine a root cause. The Service has since made a full recovery.

Network Failure Causing Outage for Photo Sharing Service

What Went Wrong?

The Photo Sharing status experienced a brief period of complete inaccessibility lasting approximately 9 minutes.

What was the issue?

Maintenance crews for the ISP providing internet services to the server hosting the Photo Sharing Service (Virgin Media) disconnected the fibre line as part of their maintenance. This maintenance or the disconnection were not planned and had no prior warning so were completely ...