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Cloudflare had a partial outage
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Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#92At times like this and the big Fastly outage roughly a year ago, choosing to host on a simple, independent bare-metal box doesn't seem like such a bad strategy (as long as one has backups for disaster recovery, of course). Sure, other things can cause downtime in that kind of infrastructure, but at least my service isn't likely to be taken offline by someone else's configuration error or deployment gone wrong.
Are there places to host an independent bare-metal box where the internet provider for that box is more reliable than cloudflare?
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#93Hackernews is my new status page. All others are useless.
I'd say all others are down
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#94CF's website is down as well. The CF Status page [0] says everything is working, though. [0] https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
It's now just updated to show incident
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#95turns out having a central failure point for the entire web was a bad idea
Someone should a website that collates the approx. 90M times this sentiment has been made on this website (a good chunk of me making it) just a reminder how nothing somehow changes on this front the moment it comes back up and people go back to relying on single SAAS's for everything.
To be fair this is not relying on a single SaaS for everything but many people relying on a single SaaS. I mean if you want to use a reverse proxy/CDN, you must rely on someone.
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#96Again, why did people decide to centralized like 80% or something of the internet under a single company?
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#97wow so that's why all of the "is it down for me" sites are down lol
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#98turns out having a central failure point for the entire web was a bad idea
Similar to when Facebook/Whatsapp went down earlier in the year and we all reverted back to SMS for an evening.
Fun times.
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#99I wasted a bunch of time debugging the HTTP 500 errors on my site before I realized everything is 100% OK on my end, and that it's Cloudflare returning the error not my servers.
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#100Hackernews is my new status page. All others are useless.
Plenty of other status posts get flagged and taken down. Guess CF is special