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Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by gfosco »

shric wrote: post #92
mwcampbell wrote: post #82

At 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?

Any local data center.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by mercer »

mwcampbell wrote: post #82

At 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.

My domains with DNSimple, and my servers are on Hetzner. There should be no dependency on CloudFlare, and yet they are down too.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by Santosh83 »

shric wrote: post #92
mwcampbell wrote: post #82

At 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?

Perhaps not, but those who want to avoid Cloudflare for technical or idealogical reasons won't realistically expect identical performance from smaller alternatives. Same as using Linux. People use it knowing fully well it may not support the latest & greatest consumer gadgets like Windows, but unless people use alternatives despite minor downsides, we shouldn't be distressed when we eventually reach a point of global near-monopoly.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by collyw »

Shouldn't have happened in the first place. Should have had something that worked on their own website to indicate the service is down, not needing to come to a somewhat obscure tech forum to find out the details.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by mburst »

It's times like these when I'm appreciative of the simplicity of the HN tech stack. Was talking to some people on discord when it went down and then noticed some other websites were down. Came right to HN to see 5 different threads about this. Will be curious to see what the cause of the issue turns out to be

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by ab-dm »

donkarma wrote: post #3

turns out having a central failure point for the entire web was a bad idea

Yes and no. Obviously not great when everything goes down, but I find a strange sense of solace and calm when I know there’s a lot of people in the same boat and there’s little I can do but wait.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by dx034 »

mwcampbell wrote: post #82

At 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.

Today's actually the first time my site is down and it's Cloudflare's fault instead of my own. Obviously this outage is huge, but so far I've been really impressed with their reliability.
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