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Re: Network Performance Issues in multiple locations

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Telia had problems hitting many service providers. Not a Cloudflare problem per se. Plenty of non-Cloudflare stuff affected like Reddit, AWS, Fastly, ... Check out the dip in requests to Reddit: http://www.redditstatus.com/

Did Reddit stop using Cloudflare?

Re: Network Performance Issues in multiple locations

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post #3

Telia had problems hitting many service providers. Not a Cloudflare problem per se. Plenty of non-Cloudflare stuff affected like Reddit, AWS, Fastly, ... Check out the dip in requests to Reddit: http://www.redditstatus.com/

That dip looks normal for that time of the day, btw. Click on the "Week" tab.

Re: Network Performance Issues in multiple locations

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Idea: let's proxy half the internet through a private, proprietary service! We can get people to give us valid SSL certificates for their sites, too, and let's fuck up Tor while we're at it. We can totally handle it, right? Oh, and we need to pay for it somehow, so let's go the venture capital approach and just pretend we won't eventually hit a growth cap and ruin our company Twitter-style when we get there.

The crazy thing is people actually bought it.

Re: Network Performance Issues in multiple locations

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Idea: let's proxy half the internet through a private, proprietary service! We can get people to give us valid SSL certificates for their sites, too, and let's fuck up Tor while we're at it. We can totally handle it, right? Oh, and we need to pay for it somehow, so let's go the venture capital approach and just pretend we won't eventually hit a growth cap and ruin our company Twitter-style when we get there. The craz…

While I entirely agree with everything you said, it's worth pointing out that Cloudflare isn't really at fault for this particular outage.
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