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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by cryptonym »

capnsketch wrote: post #373

If I had a nickel for everytime cloudflare went down. Then I would have 2 nickels which is not a lot but still wierd that it happened twice.

You would have 2 nickels, this week.

It also went down multiple times in the past; not to say that's bad, everyone does from time to time.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by phartenfeller »

8cvor6j844qw_d6 wrote: post #300
phartenfeller wrote: post #48

Wow, three times in a month is really crushing their trust.

I'll need to checkup on DigitalOcean uptime, may be better than Cloudflare.

My Hetzner servers have been running fine for years. Okay, there were times when I broke something, but at least I was able to fix it quickly and never felt dependent on others.

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Post by TheGilDev »

capnsketch wrote: post #373

If I had a nickel for everytime cloudflare went down. Then I would have 2 nickels which is not a lot but still wierd that it happened twice.

I’m still glad they’re here to provide great services and help secure the internet for lots of us!

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by JeremyJaydan »

jjude wrote: post #398
JeremyJaydan wrote: post #392

I moved away from Cloudflare over a month ago because I didn't understand how they don't have pricing caps for their upgraded plans, they genuinely seem like the mob but I haven't looked any further into it.. Either way it's been interesting to see the bullets I've been dodging.

What service(s) are you using now? What did you move to?

A small one (afaik) in a location that I wanted in the US [1]. I'm not running a bank so I'd prefer to just go down if I'm ever attacked.

[1] https://shifthosting.com/

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by koakuma-chan »

mike_hearn wrote: post #394
kortilla wrote: post #377

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. In C or C++ that could have just been a segfault. .unwrap() literally means “I’m not going to handle the error branch of this result, please crash”.

Indeed, but fortunately there are more languages in the world than Rust and C++. A language that performed decently well and used exceptions systematically (Java, Kotlin, C#) would probably have recovered from a bad data file load.

There is nothing that prevents you from recovering from a bad data file load in Rust. The programmer who wrote that code chose to crash.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by ianberdin »

viraptor wrote: post #343
ianberdin wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, on one hand, it was so wonderful. Cloudflare came and said, "Yeah, now we'll save everyone from DDoS, everything's perfect, we'll speed up your site," and bam, they became a bottleneck for the entire internet. It's some kind of nightmare. Why didn't several other such popular startups appear, into which more money was invested, and which would allow some failure points to be created? I don't understand this. Or…

> Why didn't several other such popular startups appear bunny.net fastly.com gcore.com keycdn.com Cloudfront Probably some more I forgot now. CF is not the only option and definitely not the best option. > Yeah, now we'll save everyone from DDoS, everything's perfect, we'll speed up your site, ... and host the providers selling DDoS services. https://privacy-pc.com/articles/spy-jacking-the-booters.html

Thank you for sending these alternatives, they look good. And, of course, the most important thing is that Cloudflare is free, while these alternatives cost money. And they cost hundreds of dollars at my traffic volume of tens of terabytes. Of course, I really don't want to pay. So, as they say, mice wept and jabbed, but they kept gnawing on the cactus.
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