Cloudflare API, dashboard, tunnels down

Confirming that I'm seeing improvements on this. Tunnels weren't working for me before but they are now.

If you’re waiting for the inevitable “this is why we shouldn't centralize everything”; this is that comment.

As much as I like cloudflare and easy to use stuff, lets be a little bit mindful of the blast radius of highly centralized services which are even more complex to operate due to the scale of the deployment and problem scope.

luckily this time its just administrative interfaces and supplemental services that assist in development and that hopefully aren't used in production.

People will defend cloudflare here with the old saying “Operating at scale is hard” but simultaneously holding the opinion that operating services themselves is equally hard.

I guess the argument is that outsourcing is easier, but then you are very much out of control.

“the internet” in its practical entirety going down becomes more possible every passing day.

Brace yourself, DDoS is coming...

I’m sure you’re not. Enough people do care up upvote, though. Of course that’s just the people who care, not those who don’t.

Operating at scale is hard.

However the internet doesn't require people to "operate at scale". That's the beauty. It's a mash of different (relatively) small autonomous systems, with many hosts. If any host goes down, or any network goes down, the system ignores it, or reroutes it.