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Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

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Post by compumike »

farhadhf wrote: post #217

Pretty much everything is down (checking from the Netherlands). The Cloudflare dashboard itself is experiencing an outage as well. Not-so-funny thing is that the Betterstack dashboard is down but our status page hosted by Betterstack is up, and we can't access the dashboard to create an incident and let our customers know what's going on. Edit: wording.

Could always just use a status page that updates itself. For my side project Total Real Returns [1], if you scroll down and look at the page footer, I have a live status/uptime widget [2] (just an tag, no JS) which links to an externally-hosted status page [3]. Obviously not critical for a side project, but kind of neat, and was fun to build. :)

[1] https://totalrealreturns.com/

[2] https://status.heyoncall.com/svg/uptime/zCFGfCmjJN6XBX0pACYY...

[3] https://status.heyoncall.com/o/zCFGfCmjJN6XBX0pACYY

Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

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Post by drob518 »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #574

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.

IMO, centralization is inevitable because the fundamental forces drive things in that direction. Clouds are useful for a variety of reasons (technical, time to market, economic), so developers want to use them. But clouds are expensive to build and operate, so there are only a few organizations with the budget and competency to do it well. So, as the market matures you end up with 3 to 5 major cloud operators per region, with another handful of smaller specialists. And that’s just the way it works. Fighting against that is to completely swim upstream with every market force in opposition.

Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

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Post by DeathArrow »

My theory is that people's skills are getting worse. Attention spans are diminishing, memory is shrinking. People age and retire, new less skilled generations are replacing them. There are studies about declining IQ in the last decades. Probably mobile phones and social media are to blame.

We see the signs with Amazon and Cloudflare going down, Windows Update breaking stuff. But the worse is yet to come, and I am thinking about airport traffic control, nuclear power plants, surgeons...

Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

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Post by mobiuscog »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #574

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.

How did we get to a place where Cloudflare being down means we see an outage page, but on that page it tells us explicitly that the host we're trying to connect to is up, and it's just a Cloudflare problem.

If it can tell us that the host is up, surely it can just bypass itself to route traffic.

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