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BGP changes should be like the display resolution changes on your PC... It should revert as a failsafe if not confirmed within X minutes.
That's the "commit-confirm" process they mention they will use in the write-up: > Primarily, we will be concentrating on automation improvements ... and provide an automated “commit-confirm” rollback.
Time and time again, this type of response proves that it's the right way handle a bad situation. Be humble, apologize, own your mistake, and give a transparent snapshot into what went wrong and how you're going to learn from the mistake. Or you could go the opposite direction and risk turning something like this into a PR death spiral.
Exactly. I trust businesses/people that are transparent about their mistakes/failures much more than the ones that avoid them (except Apple which never accepts their mistakes, but I still trust their products, I think I'm affected by RDF). At the end of the day, everybody makes mistakes and that's okay. Everybody else also know that everybody makes mistakes. So why not accept it? I really don't get what's wrong with…
https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/28/apple-ceo-tim-coo...
Really interesting that 19 cities handle 50% of the requests.
Actually, I think the flip side is even more interesting. If you want to give good, low latency service to 50% of the world you need a lot of data centers.
It's nearly always BGP when this level of failure occurs.
I dunno man, you can really fuck things up with DNS also.
One of our sites uses Cloudflare and serves 400k pageviews per month and generates around $650/day in ad and affiliate revenue. If the site is not up the business is not making any money. Looking at the hourly chart in Google Analytics (compared to the previous day) there isn't even a blip during this outage. So for all the advantages we get from Cloudflare (caching, WAF, security [our WP admin is secured with Cloudf…
07:42: The last of the reverts has been completed. This was delayed as network engineers walked over each other's changes, reverting the previous reverts, causing the problem to re-appear sporadically. Ouch
One of our sites uses Cloudflare and serves 400k pageviews per month and generates around $650/day in ad and affiliate revenue. If the site is not up the business is not making any money. Looking at the hourly chart in Google Analytics (compared to the previous day) there isn't even a blip during this outage. So for all the advantages we get from Cloudflare (caching, WAF, security [our WP admin is secured with Cloudf…
I didn't quite understand this. It sounds like Cloudflare's outage didn't affect you depite being their customer. Why did their large outage not affect you?
One of our sites uses Cloudflare and serves 400k pageviews per month and generates around $650/day in ad and affiliate revenue. If the site is not up the business is not making any money. Looking at the hourly chart in Google Analytics (compared to the previous day) there isn't even a blip during this outage. So for all the advantages we get from Cloudflare (caching, WAF, security [our WP admin is secured with Cloudf…
I didn't quite understand this. It sounds like Cloudflare's outage didn't affect you depite being their customer. Why did their large outage not affect you?
I buy more NET every time I see posts like this.
Been a fan of CF since they were an essential for DDOS protection for various Wordpress sites I deployed back then. I buy more NET every time I see posts like this.