Everything working here in Australia
No it's not.
Cloudflare had a partial outage
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Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#152This should hopefully drive home the idea of why HN shouldn't be cheering on Cloudflare's slow takeover of the internet.
Out of interest, what competitors are available?
Clodufare protects against DDOS? Does it do other stuff?
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#153Yes, 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?
So much for whoever downthread said "not all websites use cloud flare"
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#154Am I wrong to use this as an excuse to not use Cloudflare?
How about waiting a bit first.. Maybe, things are back faster than you could cover from any trivial issue.
It's been 30+ minutes.
All of my home's Ring cameras have been inaccessible this entire time. It's not that big of a deal for me because I planned for that eventuality, but a lot of people have not.
If you run a critical service (like Ring) and your infra is tied to CloudFlare - you're stuck! There is nothing at all you can do. That's freaking scary man. If I was working infra at Ring I'd much prefer to get paged and start fixing the problem. There are very few problems that can't be fixed in 15 minutes if you plan well for failover...
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#155Everything working here in Australia
Discord, Runescape down for me.
And some work related systems.. but that's less important.
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#156Hackernews is my new status page. All others are useless.
I first checked DownDetector which is really good for individual services. Except they are now also down...
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Feel free to try https://login.linode.com/login
Whilst the incident is happening you'll see the Cloudflare 522 page.
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#158Shouldn'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.
Their status page does show the service down as well as them having identified the issue and working on a fix:
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#159That indicates how much of the Internet depends on cloudflare server.
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#160Shouldn'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.
I don't understand why companies simply don't have outages, it seems like it would be a lot less stressful.