Things like Victorops/Splunk On-call are also down because of this.
This means if your alerts are fired through them, you'll peacefully be sleeping through this incident unless your customers wake you up.
Cloudflare had a partial outage
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does Linode really use Cloudflare? They were bought by Akamai earlier this year.
Feel free to try https://login.linode.com/login Whilst the incident is happening you'll see the Cloudflare 522 page.
Interestingly enough, I'm already logged in, and the homepage as well as the rest of the Linode dashboard are operational. It seems only the login page is down.
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#173At 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.
Yeah but if the internet is widely down, the network effect is that people probably aren't using your site because everything else is down and they'll wait for confirmation from sites like facebook and their internet banking and netflix to make sure things are back to normal.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm on Linode. Linode is down because Cloudflare is down. Can't login to their control panel, etc. You'd need to go fully independent and roll your own, with zero dependencies, to really make this work.
Does Linode really use Cloudflare? They were bought by Akamai earlier this year.
Google's Firebase uses Fastly even after acquisition. It's possible Linode to continue using Cloudflare.
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#175Linode seems unreachable too (and related hosted VPS). Is it my problem or is it a general failure on Linode?
I think it has everything to do with CF and not hosting. I have Linode servers without CF, and everything is great.
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#176turns out having a central failure point for the entire web was a bad idea
I wonder if it really was though. I’d think that these centralised services go down less than the self hosted stuff previously. Is it better to have more overall uptime but downtime means everything stops, or random downtimes of individual sites that adds up to more downtime.
I mean if large websites like Notion or Medium had used IPFS instead, there would be no central point of failure, and web pages would still be available from distributed hosts
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why companies simply don't have outages, it seems like it would be a lot less stressful.
They're talking about getting accurate information from an employee posting on HN rather than on the status page, rather than the outage itself.
Ah, well in that case they already have that so no need to complain: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
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#178The worst part is cloud infrastructure companies like DigitalOcean and Linode are both down simply because for some reason they can't build their own infrastructure to not rely on Cloudflare lol.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there places to host an independent bare-metal box where the internet provider for that box is more reliable than cloudflare?
Perhaps not, but those who want to avoid Cloudflare for technical or idealogical reasons won't realistically expect identical performance from smaller alternatives. Same as using Linux. People use it knowing fully well it may not support the latest & greatest consumer gadgets like Windows, but unless people use alternatives despite minor downsides, we shouldn't be distressed when we eventually reach a point of global…
> People use it knowing fully well it may not support the latest & greatest consumer gadgets like Windows,
Like what exactly?
Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#180Shouldn't have happened in the first place. Should have had something that worked on their own website to indicate the service is down, not needing to come to a somewhat obscure tech forum to find out the details.
Maybe you should try first to actually go into their status page[1]. It is showing a global service disruption since 06:43 UTC; about 20 minutes since you wrote this