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it's back today, even I'm verified on https://chatgpt.com/cyber, fortunately I can notice pretty quickly when it happens now - difference is apparent

Hi, i'm on codex pro plan and it silently routes to 5.2 today, WTF? Anyone else gets similar behaviour? I was working with it since morning (UTC) and afternoon sudenly it became much slower and got very different feeling, so I started digging and enabled codex logs and got:

2026-02-12T20:41:12.751950Z TRACE codex_api::sse::responses: SSE event: {"type":"response.completed","response":{"id":"resp_0fc56e20d02a6b5701698e3ae51fac8191a5bae8fc9962662c","object":"response","created_at":1770928869,"status":"completed","background":false,"completed_at":1770928872,"error":null,"frequency_penalty":0.0,"incomplete_details":null,"instructions":"...personality.\n...","max_output_tokens":null,"max_tool_calls":null,"model":"gpt-5.2-2025-12-11","

Here's good summary of what happened https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34696763

I don't have a reason to not believe them in that regard, there was a spike, but it was not visible in analytics I have access to it seems.

If anyone interested here’s what happened https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34696763 I was not aware about the spike in bandwidth, will also try to handle such cases on my side better.

As a customer that was affected by this incident, I’m really happy as it was handled by Cloudflare in the end - transparent and with clear communication how it will be improved in the future. Thanks again @jgrahamc for all initial help so it was sorted out quickly.

This is related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642984 I wasn't breaking the ToS at least not 2.8 (non html content) - my point was that I can understand I'm heavy user of the Workers and built-in pricing may not be economically feasible for CF to serve me hence push to Enterprise plan - I get it, just wish it was communicated to me clearly and beforehand my site went down.

Small in a sense it's only my running it and relatively low customers number (~400).

I don't know anything more just yet, just that my account was unbanned.

I'm also a massive fan of Cloudflare in general, love their Workers and related products, just that one aspect of account suspension without warning could be improved a little bit :)

I'd be happy to provide more info but I have none. First I communicated with support which told me that my account was restricted most likely due to 2.8 clause violation (non html content) and suggested to contact with sales which I immediately did.

Sales over the phone (was fastest) told me that it's good I contacted as otherwise in 24hours my account would be fully banned(whatever it means) and that they will prepare me an offer in 15 minutes, but it was taking longer (no response after an hour or so) and in the meanwhile I wrote Twitter and HN post which CTO of Cloudflare noticed and then after a while I've got another phone call from sales that I should update my ticket to ask unbanning my account as it was approved now by CTO which I did and that solved the issue at least for now - and that's it - no further info what the issue was, still waiting on Enterprise plan quote for me.

Cloudflare is not used at all for data collection (it's not scraping, it's using official exchanges APIs), only for the APIs that serve historical data.

sorry, I did HN post in desperate move so my service can be online again - did not try to blame anything on @jgrahamc - other than that incident I'm very happy with Cloudflare Workers, it's an awesome tech.

Around 12:00 UTC today ban has been lifted for my account thanks to @jgrahamc - thanks!

Around 12:00UTC today ban has been lifted for my account thanks to @jgrahamc - thanks!

Lesson learned!

No formal communication at all as mentioned before if Enterprise plan is a must for my account I'll sign up on it, just was told before it was not required - I'm not using or need any enterprise level features.

No huge spikes at all, so not sure what triggered it.

no, I'm not using WebSockets at all in Workers.

Seems like my account was restricted due to https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/supplemental-terms/#cloudfl...

2.Cloudflare may, with or without notice to you and without liability of any kind, temporarily limit your storage and/or the number of requests you can make or receive using the Developer Platform for any reason (in its sole reasonable discretion), including without limitation, if processing such requests would put an undue burden on the Cloudflare network, adversely impact the Service, or otherwise threaten the integrity of Cloudflare’s networks.

To be fair I'm using lots of requests and bandwidth so could be reason, just if only I got an email about that before shutting everything down.

and I really appreciate it, not trying to blame anyone, I created HN post as desperate attempt to have my service online again, hope you understand.

I'm using Workers as basically API gateway/smart load balancer to backend services that handle actual load (resource intensive data filtering). Most of the responses are not cached on Cloudflare level. Thing is that I was using Workers for about 4 years already with not issue at at all, I'm aware that I use lots of requests and bandwidth but I just wish I was contacted about mandatory upgrade before effectively turning my service down.

Outage started around 00:00UTC today.

I was able to contact via support chat to confirm it's indeed Cloudflare related issue as wasn't sure as it's not displayed in any form on Cloudflare dashboard that indeed account is restricted. That was around 8AM UTC.

Since then I also contacted with sales team (got the details already as they approached me in last few weeks as mentioned before) in order to upgrade to Enterprise plan as it seems like the only solution, but did not get the quote yet and account is still restricted.

No, not at all. Seems like by account was restricted due to https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/supplemental-terms/#cloudfl...

2.Cloudflare may, with or without notice to you and without liability of any kind, temporarily limit your storage and/or the number of requests you can make or receive using the Developer Platform for any reason (in its sole reasonable discretion), including without limitation, if processing such requests would put an undue burden on the Cloudflare network, adversely impact the Service, or otherwise threaten the integrity of Cloudflare’s networks.

thanks, much appreciated!

I'm working on high frequency historical crypto market data API

https://tardis.dev