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Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

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post #599

Meanwhile my Wordpress blog on DigitalOcean is up. And so is DigitalOcean. My ISP is routing public internet traffic to my IPs these days. What keeps me from running my blog from home? Fear of exposing a TCP port, that's what. What do we do about that?

> What keeps me from running my blog from home?

Depending on the contract it might not be allowed to run public network services from your home network.

I had a friend doing that and once his site got popular the ISP called (or sent a letter? don't remember anymore) with "take this 10x more expensive corporate contract or we will block all this traffic".

In general why the ISPs don't want you to do that (in addition to way more expensive corporate rates) is the risk of someone DDoS that site which could cause issues to large parts of their domestic customers (and depending on the country be liable to compensate those customers for not providing a service they paid for)

Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

#615

Classic. I see issues. Vendor’s status page is all green. Go to HN to find the confirmation. Applies to AWS, GH, everyone. Edit: beautiful, this decentralised design of the internet.

FWIW, cloudflare's status page is showing red currently.

Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

#617
post #587

A colleague of mine just came bursting through my office door in a panic, thinking he brought our site down since this happened just as he made some changes to our Cloudflare config. He was pretty relieved to see this post.

Tell him it's worse than he thinks. He obviously brought the entire Cloudflare system down.

You joke and I think its funny, but as a junior engineer I would be quite proud if some small change I made was able to take down the mighty Cloudflare.

Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

#618

Is it me or has there been a very noticeable uptick in large scale infra-level outages lately? AWS, Cloudflare, etc have all been way under whatever SLA they publish.

Coincidentally, large tech companies have been conducting mass layoffs and claim they're going to rely on AI much more to replace junior developers.
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