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Re: Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

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post #95

A great example for why you shouldn't transfer your domain to Cloudflare Registrar if you're also using their CDN. Those who have transferred their domains cannot change DNS servers to mitigate the outage.

You can setup your domains using their CNAME method. You do not have to delegate your entire domain to them. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36002061511...

Together with a short TTL we were able to recover without relying on their dashboards.

Re: Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

#134
post #95

A great example for why you shouldn't transfer your domain to Cloudflare Registrar if you're also using their CDN. Those who have transferred their domains cannot change DNS servers to mitigate the outage.

Really good point. I debated about switching, and this exactly reason is why I didn't. Its one thing I didn't want to have in the same bucket.

Re: Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

#136

Any workarounds or solutions ? I'm an on-call engineer with lots of questions coming in. I'm not sure what I can do apart from moving the domain off Cloudflare, bug DNS propagation would take a few hours and by then Cloudflare might be up again.

Outages can always happen, when they do with companies like this, at least you'll know that some of the best people out there are working on the issue and that it will be resolved asap.

CloudFlare has proven in the past to be a very capable party, I don't think panicking now and try to move everything away is a smart move. Also, a few people have been saying that even if you want to, the site to do so is not reachable, so that would be a challenge as well.

Re: Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

#137
post #72

Good. I'm tired of people not learning that trusting a single gateway with 50% of the internet is bad. Yes, I know, free DDOS protection. There has to be another way of doing this, some mesh based DDOS protection or so.

I get your point. But I'm not sure I can ever grok the mindset of someone who thinks, "good, that'll teach 'em". Not sure I'd ever want to work with that individual.

For the kind of coworker I’d like, a grumpy old cynic beats the peppy corporate cheerleaders any day of the week.

Re: Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

#140
post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Point your DNS back to your actual host? Might be the only short term solution, though DNS propagation times kinda rule that out :/

That's a no-go if you transferred your domains to Cloudflare Registrar.

Something something all your eggs in one basket :)
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