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Re: Cloudflare API Down

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post #46

When I worked there (3+ years ago), if PDX were out then "the brain" was out... things like DDoS protection was already being done within each PoP (so that will be just fine, even for L3 and L7 floods, even for new and novel attacks), but nearly everything else was done with the compute in PDX and then shipped to each PoP as configuration data. The lifecycle is: PoPs generate/gather data > send to PDX > compute in PD…

Yikes. If still true, this feels like a significant single point of failure in their architecture.

Re: Cloudflare API Down

#52

Flexential PDX02 reportedly lost power around the same time this started.

Seems related, Cloudflare just released this:

> Identified - Cloudflare is assessing a loss of power impacting data centres while simultaneously failing over services.

Re: Cloudflare API Down

#53
post #27

Did someone re-commit this bug from the other day? https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-incident-on-october-3... E: nah, looks like a power outage in their brain DC. See other comments for details :)

Every time CF goes down, we get rewarded with an interesting article. At this point I’ve been pavloved into enjoying outages!

Re: Cloudflare API Down

#56
post #42

Cloudflare has been down a lot this week. Technically, what I am thinking of was Hubspot was down but apparently it was related to Cloudflare issues.

Kinsta pages went down because of cloudflare taking our company’s marketing site with it for a good 5-10 minutes.

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#57

This is not looking good. I really hope they don't move away from dogfooding because of this. Also vercel deployments (and edge functions in general) aren't working. Their status page says: "We identified the root cause as an issue with one of our upstream providers and working with them towards mitigation." I wonder if edge functions use workers under the hood lol. LINK: https://www.vercel-status.com/

> I wonder if edge functions use workers under the hood lol.

Yep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29003514

Re: Cloudflare API Down

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post #46

When I worked there (3+ years ago), if PDX were out then "the brain" was out... things like DDoS protection was already being done within each PoP (so that will be just fine, even for L3 and L7 floods, even for new and novel attacks), but nearly everything else was done with the compute in PDX and then shipped to each PoP as configuration data. The lifecycle is: PoPs generate/gather data > send to PDX > compute in PD…

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