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How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
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.
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.
When aliens study humans from this period, their book of fairy tales will include several where a terrible evil was triggered by a config push.
I used to say, "Don't worry, we host it on Cloudflare. If it's down, then 30% internet is down. It's highly unlikely." Well...
Why do people use the reverse proxy functionality of Cloudflare? I've worked at small to medium sized businesses that never had any of this while running public facing websites and they were/are just fine. Same goes for my personal projects: I've never been worried about being targeted by a botnet so much that I introduce a single point of failure like this.
PS:Someone really doesn't want Gemini 3 to get air time today