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Currently I have multi-region loadbalanced servers. DNS and WAF (and the load balancer) on Cloudflare.
Moving DNS elsewhere is step 1 so I'm not locked out - but then I can't use Cloudflare full stop (without enterprise pricing).
Multi-provider DNS and WAF - okay I could see how that works.
But what about the global load balancer, surely that has to remain a single point of failure?
If someone wanted to learn about how the modern infrastructure stack works, and why things like this occur, where would be some good resources to start?
How can such big incidents occur where half of the internet is down because of one company and what can be done to prevent that?
I’d rather mitigate a DDoS attack on my own servers than deal with Cloudflare. Having to prove you’re human is the second-worst thing on my list, right after accepting cookies. Those two things alone have made browsing the web a worse experience than it was in the late 90s or early 2000s.
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/cloudflare-down-...
If anyone needs commands for turning off the CF proxy for their domains and happens to have a Cloudflare API token. First you can grab the zone ID via: curl -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones" -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq -r '.result[] | "\(.id) \(.name)"' And a list of DNS records using: curl -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID…
Edit: seems like we are back online!