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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by Oras » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 9:02 AM UTC

Went to ahref to check a domain, saw 500 and came here to check.

I have a few domains on cloudflare and all of them are working with no issues so it might not be a global issue

Re: Cloudflare was down

#122

Post by Eikon » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 9:02 AM UTC

csomar wrote: post #81

63stack wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

They just did an update, and it is bad (in the sense that they are not realizing their clients are down?) > Investigating - Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs. > These issues do not affect the serving of cached files via the Cloudflare CDN or other security features at the Cloudflare Edge. > Customers using the Dashboard / Cloudflare APIs are impacted as requests might fail…

> (in the sense that they are not realizing their clients are down?)

Their own website seems down too https://www.cloudflare.com/

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500 Internal Server Error

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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 9:02 AM UTC

xyproto wrote: post #45

26d0 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hmm... https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ (edit: it's working now (detecting downdetector's down))

A wrong downdetectordowntector is worse than a 500 one. :D

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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by O4epegb » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 9:02 AM UTC

26d0 wrote: post #23

AmateurAlert wrote: post #17

https://downdetector.com/ classic

hmm... https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ (edit: it's working now (detecting downdetector's down))

This is a fake detector that just has frontend logic for mocking realistic data, you can easily see it in the source code.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by basisword » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 9:02 AM UTC

I’m sure everybody learnt their lesson from last months outage and built in redundancy or stopped relying on Cloudflare.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by rvz » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 9:02 AM UTC

pm90 wrote: post #25

This 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.

We are now seeing which companies do not consider the third party risk of single point of failures in systems they do not control as part of their infrastructure and what their contingency plan is.

It turns out so far, there isn't one. Other than contacting the CEO of Cloudflare rather than switching on a temporary mitigation measure to ensure minimal downtime.

Therefore, many engineers at affected companies would have failed their own systems design interviews.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by willtemperley » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 9:02 AM UTC

timvdalen wrote: post #28

Wow, just plain 500s on customer sites. That's a level of down you don't see that often.

Yes Claude is down with a 500 (cloudflare).

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by sunbum » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 9:03 AM UTC

odie5533 wrote: post #93

How is Hacker News still up?

Because it doesn't use cloudflare duh.?

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by matt3210 » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 9:03 AM UTC

Everyone says vibe coding but people are just fine at being incompetent without the AI help

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by nlitened » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 9:03 AM UTC

_cenw wrote: post #76

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

Also “Rewrite it in Rust”.

P.S. it’s a joke, guys, but you have to admit it’s at least partially what’s happening