Discord is back, Kickstarter progressed from 500 to an exotic "Error 1016 Origin DNS error".
EDIT: all flushed, Kickstarter works.
Cloudflare had a partial outage
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Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage
#242Kind of ironic, there was a big "cloudflare is bad and a central point of failure" article on the front page just a couple days ago. Found it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31801947 edit: Not that I necessarily agree with the article even in light of there being an outage, cloudflare has been pretty good for us. Just thought it was interesting.
Brace yourself for a lot more of those kinds of articles in the next few days.
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#243Can someone link me to some information that explains what Cloudflare is besides being a CDN? Like I understand how websites can be served using a CDN and how a lot of the internet depends on that... but I don't see how gaming services like Valorant or cloud providers like AWS or chat room like Discord depend on Cloudflare. Thanks!
Their WAF is very useful, it makes it very easy to defend against attacks without paying anything. In general, their big plus point is that they offer many services for free, making it easier to onboard.
But by now they offer lots of services, although I believe WAF and CDN are probably still the most important to many.
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#244While this sucks, at least we'll have a great writeup to look forward to
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#245I think unpkg were affected by this too.
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#246Am I wrong to use this as an excuse to not use Cloudflare?
Apparently yes, people in here are quick to defend our new overlord. "But they're great", they cry, "why should I use anything else?"
I'd love to use another company, but there's no one offering the same for the same price tag. Most of their services are free and they charge very little for the rest. Especially if you have a traffic heavy page with little revenue, Cloudflare is pretty much the only solution for CDN, WAF etc. All the others charge for traffic and cost a fortune.
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#247Another reminder that centralized services like Cloudflare are a bad idea.
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Yeah the NZ ones just came back online, https://veb.co.nz/ was returning a 500 nginx error which confused the shit out of me until I visited HN
Seems our DNS was working over time because a lot of the websites that were down for others were working OK for us.
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#249It's time to start discussing a fail-open option for us CF users. Most of my sites are using CF for global performance rather than DDoS protection and security. I'd be fine with them changing DNS to point to the origin (or any other user defined IPs) in case of issues (even if it would take hours to return to normal).
This is also important for countries with limited connectivity to the Internet, if the PoP in that country looses it's connection back to CF it shuts everything down, so even if the origin is in the next rack over from the PoP, it's un-reachable.
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#250Earlier 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?
Your box running your web server is far less complicated than using a CDN and worrying about countless additional points of failure. Network problems are only a minor risk.
And where will I host my box?
I'm my apartment?
My Internet goes down at least twice a year and my electricity goes down even more, specially in the winter. So no, this is not more reliable than cloudflare.