Cloudflare had a partial outage • Hacker News Board

I cannot access science.org, quora.com, substack.com at the moment. It shows 500 Internal Server Error. Didn't know why but now it is clear. I guess I just wait until it is fixed.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by b3lvedere » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:21 AM UTC

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.

Thank you for your very fast support!

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by Shank » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:21 AM UTC

jimmydorry wrote: post #25

jayhoon wrote: post #9

CF's website is down as well. The CF Status page [0] says everything is working, though. [0] https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Ironically, the cloudflare.com site is a more reliable indicator. If it doesn't load, then cloudflare is down. Their status page is a joke, likely crippled to reduce legal liability, but at this point it's just an outright misrepresentation.

> Their status page is a joke, likely crippled to reduce legal liability, but at this point it's just an outright misrepresentation.

It's just Atlassian Statuspage, which is a manually-updated incident response system. Unlike AWS, Cloudflare actually makes an effort to update it fairly quickly, but it can still be slow-to-update when something is immediately wrong.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by nonoesp » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:21 AM UTC

paradite wrote: post #28

DigitalOcean is down as well.

I host my apps in DigitalOcean and it seems the main domains are still resolving, (e.g., https://nono.ma or https://gettingsimple.com).

Subdomains aren't working though (e.g., https://sketch.nono.ma).

Update: It seems everything is resolving properly now.

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by Semaphor » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:22 AM UTC

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?

We’ve been on Hetzner for several years now. So far the only outages we had were from us moving servers (yeah, we don’t have high availability or load balancing, just a single beefy dedicated server). So, yes?

Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:22 AM UTC

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.

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Re: Cloudflare had a partial outage

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Post by veb » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:23 AM UTC

afro88 wrote: post #118

Everything working here in Australia

A lot of my Australian colleagues were saying a lot of things were down, including all of our websites however me being in NZ, I was able to visit them.

So I do think Cloudflare actually is a bit more decentralised than we give them credit for really.

Just the fact that they messaged here in the HN thread about what was happening, what they knew, and how they were gonna fix it. That's just _awesome_

Kudos to them. I can't wait to see their after report.