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Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

#111

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Or maybe we just move away from cloudflare-like services altogether.

And just live with high latency?

That stupid Cloudflare check page often adds latency in orders of magnitude compared to what a few thousand miles of cables would. Also most applications and websites are not that sensitive to latency anyway, at least when done properly.

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

#112
post #74

The old guard has left as they we too much of an expense in this cost-cutting age... without mentors, crap creeps in and now we are seeing what happens when people don't know how things work, are in charge...

Why not build the next cloudflare then, I'm sure it is appreciated by HN folks.

With what capital exactly?

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

#114
post #77

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does this mean we can blame React Server Components for something new?

Listen to the sound of HN hawks erupting with joy when they realize they can blame JS, React, RSC, Rust, Cloudflare, and the cloud all for one outage.

For those hawks, Christmas has come early.

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

#115

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... reports that https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ is down, guessing downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector runs via cloudflare!

Snark detectors are all the way up tho

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

#116

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Just because someone is on an H1B visa doesn't mean they know less. It's a bit rich to blame this on foreign workers even though nothing is known about who or what caused this outage.

Knowledge + tech skills are not the only factor that lead to subpar outcomes with these scenarios. In my experience the thing that causes the most problems with H1Bs is the weak English and related communication issues.

In my experience, the communication problems stem from the Americans who expect perfect English from all others. English is spoken across the entire business world between people for whom it is not their first language. The accents and broken English is epic in many organizations. Yet they work through it and get things done together.

If you work harder at taking the burden upon yourself to understand others, you might be surprised how well people can learn to communicate despite differing backgrounds.

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

#117
post #37

Edinburgh Airport is also down, suspending all flights after an "IT issue with our air traffic control provider". Not sure if this is coincidental, but the timing is rather suspicious!

These days planes got problems with all kinds of clouds.

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

#118

The old guard has left as they we too much of an expense in this cost-cutting age... without mentors, crap creeps in and now we are seeing what happens when people don't know how things work, are in charge...

I’m sick of people saying this. The truth at every cloud provider:

1. There were outages under the old guard.

2. The new guard is operating systems that are larger than what the old guard operated.

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

#119
post #37

Edinburgh Airport is also down, suspending all flights after an "IT issue with our air traffic control provider". Not sure if this is coincidental, but the timing is rather suspicious!

Maybe the little plane icons on the ATC screens are a PNG hosted on some Cloudflare domain.

They laughed at my base64 encoded icons, now there, enjoy your downtime.

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

#120

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Or maybe we just move away from cloudflare-like services altogether.

And just live with high latency?

The website you're using right now is hosted from a single location without any kind of CDN in front, so unless by coincidence you happen to live next door then you seem to be managing. CDNs do help, but just not bundling 40MB of Javascript or doing 50 roundtrips to load a page can go a long way.
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