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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by emakarov »

jbuild wrote: post #234
xyproto wrote: 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.

probably these websockets are not going through cloudflare

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Post by ianberdin »

biql wrote: post #255
ianberdin wrote: post #153

I have 10B idea: cloudflare that does not fail so often.

How about: internet that is actually decentralized.

Yes, on one hand, it was so wonderful. Cloudflare came and said, "Yeah, now we'll save everyone from DDoS, everything's perfect, we'll speed up your site," and bam, they became a bottleneck for the entire internet. It's some kind of nightmare. Why didn't several other such popular startups appear, into which more money was invested, and which would allow some failure points to be created? I don't understand this. Or at least Cloudflare itself should have had some backup mechanism, so that in case of failures, something still works, even slowly, or at least they could redirect traffic directly, bypassing their proxies. They just didn't do that at all. Something is definitely wrong.

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Post by _cenw »

joenada wrote: post #134
_cenw wrote: post #76

That's the 30% vibe code they promised us. Cynicism aside, something seems to be going wrong in our industry.

Going? I think we got there a long time ago. I'm sure we all try our best but our industry doesn't take quality seriously enough. Not compared to every other kind of engineering discipline.

Always been there. But it seems to be creeping into institutions that previously cared over the past few years, accelerating in the last.

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Post by lucianbr »

s_dev wrote: post #214
javier2 wrote: post #112

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…

Are the contracts so easy to bypass? Who signs a contract with an SLA knowing the service provider will just lie about the availability? Is the client supposed to sue the provider any time there is an SLA breach?

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

javier2 wrote: post #112
xyproto wrote: post #9

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

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

You won't be able to update the status page due to failures anyway.
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