This was very educational, all of a sudden I couldn't reach 60% of all websites I normally visit everyday. I guess this is the cost of laziness under the guise of DDOS protection.
Cloudflare had a partial outage
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Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#132I was setting up some DNS for a site, when it suddenly stopped working after 30mins of missing with the settings and googling I gave up come in here, and see this.
My sites that are just using DNS are working fine, it's only those with the orange cloud, proxy turned on that are broken.
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#133Hackernews is my new status page. All others are useless.
Yep. Came here when I saw two of my sites go down before I even checked Heroku or Cloudflare
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#134Yes, not worldwide but a lot of places. Problem with our backbone. We know what. Rollbacks etc. happening. Bring it back up in chunks. Should be back up everywhere.
We are not using cloud flare. But our domain is also not accessible. We are using digital ocean's DNS service for propagating our IP. Does the DigitalOcean's DNS service depend on Cloudflare service?
Yes.
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#135Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#136Kind of ironic, there was a big "cloudflare is bad and a central point of failure" article on the front page just a couple days ago.
Found it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31801947
edit: Not that I necessarily agree with the article even in light of there being an outage, cloudflare has been pretty good for us. Just thought it was interesting.
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#137At 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.
I'm on Linode. Linode is down because Cloudflare is down. Can't login to their control panel, etc. You'd need to go fully independent and roll your own, with zero dependencies, to really make this work.
Linode control panel being down doesn't mean that the servers they host are down.
For *most* web facing apps/sites, a site hosted on e.g. Linode like this, but not using Cloudflare, would be unaffected by such an outage.
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#138Yes, not worldwide but a lot of places. Problem with our backbone. We know what. Rollbacks etc. happening. Bring it back up in chunks. Should be back up everywhere.
We are not using cloud flare. But our domain is also not accessible. We are using digital ocean's DNS service for propagating our IP. Does the DigitalOcean's DNS service depend on Cloudflare service?
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#139At 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.
I'm on Linode. Linode is down because Cloudflare is down. Can't login to their control panel, etc. You'd need to go fully independent and roll your own, with zero dependencies, to really make this work.
Does Linode really use Cloudflare? They were bought by Akamai earlier this year.
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#140At 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.
I'm on Linode. Linode is down because Cloudflare is down. Can't login to their control panel, etc. You'd need to go fully independent and roll your own, with zero dependencies, to really make this work.
Isn't linode owned by Akamai now?