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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...
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The way I read their complaint was that they should have something on their website to indicate they were down. Anyway, at the time they complained, the status page also already said that the issue was identified and a fix was being rolled out.
Their post was saying that the dedicated status domain should be the first place to get useful information. There were multiple new threads on HN before the status page was updated at all. I'm sure there are legal reasons, but it's not ideal. Then there was the CTO's (appreciated!) comment prior to the status page's second update with information suggesting this would be resolved soon (which IMO is the information ev…
I really dislike that they are editing their status messages. Entry[1] dated "Jun 21, 2022 - 06:43 UTC" has been edited to include more detail after they posted another entry at 06:57 UTC. There seems to be no indication that the message has been altered. Currently text on the status page may suggest that they identified the problem immediately but it took about 15 minutes. Previously there was a text stating that cu…
Strongly agree. Such whitewashing puts all previous incident reports in doubt - can I trust CF summaries of outages, or did they rewrite that history too.
It'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 c…
Wouldn't this expose the origin IPs to attack?
It's trivial to scan the whole IPv4 internet to find out which IP you are hosting your site on.
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The comment on HN had more useful information (that the issue was understood and a fix coming) before that status page then updated. I think that's their point. Prior to that, it was some time (in the "all my sites are wrecked" timescale) before the status page had any indication of an outage.
The way I read their complaint was that they should have something on their website to indicate they were down. Anyway, at the time they complained, the status page also already said that the issue was identified and a fix was being rolled out.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Sorry about that.
Kind 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.
But web2 is going (really) great once you depend on Cloudflare. And it is certainly not re-centralizing the whole internet with a provider that is a single point of failure. /s
Care to clarify so I could take the mandatory contrarian approach?
GitLab.com is impacted too as they are also behind Cloudflare.
Incident: https://status.gitlab.com/pages/incident/5b36dc6502d06804c08... with the latest update:
[Monitoring] Services seem to be back to normal, and we continue monitoring. Details in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/7...
This should hopefully drive home the idea of why HN shouldn't be cheering on Cloudflare's slow takeover of the internet.
Out of interest, what competitors are available? Clodufare protects against DDOS? Does it do other stuff?
Hackernews is my new status page. All others are useless.
I first checked DownDetector which is really good for individual services. Except they are now also down...
Edit:- Found it from another user.,
Downdetector: ಠ_ಠ Well, this is awkward...