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Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by js4ever »

shric wrote: post #92
mwcampbell wrote: post #82

At times like this and the big Fastly outage roughly a year ago, choosing to host on a simple, independent bare-metal box doesn't seem like such a bad strategy (as long as one has backups for disaster recovery, of course). Sure, other things can cause downtime in that kind of infrastructure, but at least my service isn't likely to be taken offline by someone else's configuration error or deployment gone wrong.

Are there places to host an independent bare-metal box where the internet provider for that box is more reliable than cloudflare?

According to my monitoring, yes and by a large difference

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by dcgudeman »

hexage1814 wrote: post #96

Again, why did people decide to centralized like 80% or something of the internet under a single company?

Why do people ask questions like this? You know the answer. This company offered products or services superior to alternatives so people elected to use them.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by londons_explore »

Cloudflare has too many outages.

Their core service (DNS and web proxying) should see an outage once every 10 years or less. Much like Google Search (which is a far more complex service).

Yet it seems we get an outage more frequently than once a year. In my opinion, that makes the service too unreliable to base my business off - it's not like I can failover to another provider while they're down.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by Tiddles-the2nd »

mwcampbell wrote: post #82

At times like this and the big Fastly outage roughly a year ago, choosing to host on a simple, independent bare-metal box doesn't seem like such a bad strategy (as long as one has backups for disaster recovery, of course). Sure, other things can cause downtime in that kind of infrastructure, but at least my service isn't likely to be taken offline by someone else's configuration error or deployment gone wrong.

Not a useful comment 20 minutes into an outage.

The internet is an interconnected web of dependencies. Unless you are Cloudflare/Akamai/Amazon/Google there is no self-hosted anymore.

You can host in your basement if you like but you're still dependent on your ISP.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by janmo »

jhgg wrote: post #65

They're not down worldwide, we're still seeing traffic from some POPs, but it looks like a majority of their POPs are dead. This feels like a bad config push.

Google Analytics shows me that I still have quite a lot of traffic, so it is not 100% down. Edit: If I set my VPN to Poland it works.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by RowanH »

dangrossman wrote: post #99

I wasted a bunch of time debugging the HTTP 500 errors on my site before I realized everything is 100% OK on my end, and that it's Cloudflare returning the error not my servers.

Ditto - I'm sitting here, wtf I'm not running Nginx on my blog, but I'm getting an Nginx response, hit IP directly....oooh.... right that doesn't make sense it's working fine. Cloudflare can't be down, that's next to, wait, status page (to their credit it's got a status note). HN here we go...

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by mercer »

golanggeek wrote: post #112
jgrahamc wrote: post #54

Yes, not worldwide but a lot of places. Problem with our backbone. We know what. Rollbacks etc. happening. Bring it back up in chunks. Should be back up everywhere.

We are not using cloud flare. But our domain is also not accessible. We are using digital ocean's DNS service for propagating our IP. Does the DigitalOcean's DNS service depend on Cloudflare service?

Same here, except DNSimple.
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