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Curious to see which big companies were caught flat-footed during the 18 November outage compared with today. In my opinion, if a company was caught out twice, that reflects poor decision-making and urgency. As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

If a company was able to overcome all the red tape within three weeks and not be impacted today, that's impressive.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Yes. Weird that https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ isn't reporting this properly. It should be full of red blinking lights.

This is just business as usual, status pages are 95% for show now. The data center would have to be under water for the status page to say "some users might be experiencing disruptions".

well it does say that now, so…

which datacenter got flooded?

Re: Cloudflare was down

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post #9

Yes. Weird that https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ isn't reporting this properly. It should be full of red blinking lights.

Interesting, I get a 500 if I try to visit coinbase.com, but my WebSocket connections to advanced-trade-ws.coinbase.com are still live with no issues.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#236
This is painful, if I'm not mistaken this is during a scheduled maintenance too ?

Whenever I deploy a new release to my 5 customers, I am pedantic about having a fast rollback.. Maybe I'm not following the apparent industry standard and instead should just wing it.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. I only work for a small company, but you can be certain we will not update the status page if only a small portion of customers are affected, and if we are fully down, rest assured there will be no available hands to keep the status page updated

>rest assured there will be no available hands to keep the status page updated That's not how status pages if implemented correctly work. The real reason status pages aren't updated is SLAs. If you agree on a contract to have 99.99% uptime your status page better reflect that or it invalidates many contracts. This is why AWS also lies about it's uptime and status page. These services rarely experience outages accordi…

I imagine there will be many levels of "approvals" to get the status page actually showing down, since SLA uptime contracts is involved.
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