Their uptime over the year is likely faring worse than your average hosting company, DNS provider or CDN.
Some may experience more downtime due to their outages than they'd have from DDoS.
Cloudflare was down
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#172https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673843.2023.2...
https://www.perplexity.ai/
https://www.researchgate.net/
All give me
"500 Internal Server Error cloudflare.."
So I'm guessing yes.
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#173Perplexity is down
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#174It's really cool to me that this site is never down with all these outages of major websites.
Representative of having the best developers behind it.
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#175This is not good. One major outage? Something exceptional. Several outages in a short time? As someone thats worked in operations, I have empathy; there are so many “temp havks” that are put in place for incidents. but the rest of the world won’t… they’re gonna suffer a massive reputation loss if this goes on as long as the last one.
At least this warrants a good review of anyone's dependency on cloudflare.
If it turns out that this was really just random bad luck, it shouldn't affect their reputation (if humans were rational, that is...)
But if it is what many people seem to imply, that this is the outcome of internal problems/cuttings/restructuring/profit-increase etc, then I truly very much hope it affects their reputation.
But I'm afraid it won't. Just like Microsoft continues to push out software, that, compared to competitors, is unstable, insecure, frustrating to use, lacks features, etc, without it harming their reputation or even bottomlines too much. I'm afraid Cloudflare has a de-facto monopoly (technically: big moat) and can get away with offering poorer quality, for increasing pricing by now.
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#176Funny how even safe Rust isn’t able to stop vibecoding without a proper validation. And the fact that it's a monopoly isn't so funny anymore.
Rust is one of the few languages where I found AI to be very well checked. The type system can enforce so many constraints that you do avoid lots of bugs, and the AI will get caught writing shit code. Of course, vibe coding will always find a way to make something horribly broken but pretty.
Yep, that’s what I wrote. It wasn’t a sarcasm
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#177I have 10B idea: cloudflare that does not fail so often.
It exists and it's called Bunny.net
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#178Even digital ocean is down :D
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#179This is not good. One major outage? Something exceptional. Several outages in a short time? As someone thats worked in operations, I have empathy; there are so many “temp havks” that are put in place for incidents. but the rest of the world won’t… they’re gonna suffer a massive reputation loss if this goes on as long as the last one.
This is a good reminder for everyone to reconsider making all of their websites depend on a single centralized point of failure. There are many alternatives to the different services which Cloudflare offers.
My Cloudflare Pages website works fine.
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#180Perplexity AI shows 500 Internal Server Error