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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by ksec »

snazz wrote: post #265
blisseyGo wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, done HN use any CDN or other way of DDOS protection? dang?

Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).

So HN is serving 5.5M page view daily (excluding API access ) on a single server without CDN and without a database?

Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong.

Edit: The number is from Dang [1]

>These days around 5.5M page views daily and something like 5M unique readers a month, depending on how you try to count them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808787

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by adsjhdashkj »

parliament32 wrote: post #206
rozab wrote: post #136

We can't keep going on like this. The vulnerability of centralised internet infrastructure is a huge problem for everyone. Somebody, somewhere, really ought to sort it all out

Why not you? Just don't use CF. The more people stay away from CF, the better.

I feel like for a lot of sites CF & CDNs are the only way to survive Reddit/HN/etc - do you disagree?

I definitely agree in concept with you, but then i think back to how frequently script kiddies took down sites ~10 years ago, or w/e. I feel like what has changes is the massive CDNs in front of so many sites.

So while i do want a better solution, i'm not sure what it looks like. Thoughts?

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by ninkendo »

britmob wrote: post #171

Looks like it's back. No longer getting issues with 1.1.1.1 and domains are being resolved!

Not for me, `dig @1.1.1.1 google.com` is returning SERVFAIL still. Their anycast config may be broken in some way (ie. the backends for some regions are down, but still advertising routes)

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by rickyc091 »

spiritplumber wrote: post #192
rickyc091 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. Rebooted the router and modem thinking it was me, but my phone was still on wifi then realized it was probably my cloudflare DNS.

Pihole is your friend.

Looks like I got another weekend project.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by Exuma »

Update - This afternoon we saw an outage across some parts of our network. It was not as a result of an attack. It appears a router on our global backbone announced bad routes and caused some potions of the network to not be available. We believe we have addressed the root cause and monitoring systems for stability now.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by th0th »

heliodor wrote: post #133

WebGazer.io managed to shoot me an email about my site being down. This in spite of their site being down too.

Hi @heliodor, WebGazer founder Gokhan here :)

Actually the site is running but not accessible due to the issue. Glad you got the heads up, after a while I had to pause monitoring to prevent side effects.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by winrid »

snazz wrote: post #265
blisseyGo wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, done HN use any CDN or other way of DDOS protection? dang?

Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).

Makes sense based on what I've read about Arc, which HN is written in.

I've been working on something where the DB is also part of the application layer. The performance you can get on one machine is insane, since you spend minimal time on marshalling structures and moving things around.

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