Cloudflare captchas don't work, which has taken down both Claude and Perplexity for me.
Lovely.
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
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#852How 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.
Well the centralisation without rapid recovery and practices that provide substantial resiliency… that would be worrying.
But I dare say the folks at these organisations take these matters incredibly seriously and the centralisation problem is largely one of risk efficiency.
I think there is no excuse, however, to not have multi region on state, and pilot light architectures just in case.
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#853I miss the old internet where 1 company having an outage didn't take down most of it.
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#854A 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.
You should tell him his config change took down half the internet.
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#855Seems like ChatGPT and Claude are also affected. (CLI Codex still seems to work). RIP to the engineers fixing this without any AI help.
For me right now, Claude.ai is down, but Claude Code (terminal, extension) seems to be up and happy. Suggests that API is probably up.
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#856So ... any bets the cause isn't DNS?
Nope. Looks like they have a DNS-like configuration manager...
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#857Phew, my latest 3h30 workshop about Obsidian was saved.
I recorded it this morning, not knowing about the Cloudflare issue (probably started while I was busy). I'm using Circle.so and they're down (my community site is now inaccessible). Luckily, they probably use AWS S3 or similar to host their files, so that part is still up and running.
Meanwhile all my sites are down. I'll just wait this one out, it's not the end of the world for me.
My GitHub actions are also down for one of my project because some third-party deps go through Cloudflare (Vulkan SDK). Just yesterday I was thinking to myself: "I don't like this dependency on that URL...". Now I like it even less
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#858I’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.
As much as this situation sucks, how do you plan to "mitigate a DDoS attack on my own servers". The reason I use Cloudflare is to use it as a proxy especially for DDOS attacks if they do occur. Right now, our services are down and we are getting tons of customer support tickets (like everyone else) but it is a lot easier to explain the the whole world is down vs its just us.
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#859Maybe this incident will make people rethink putting Cloudflare blindly in front of every website.
In theory even a single company service could be distributed, so only a fraction of websites would be affected, thus it's not a necessity to be a single point of failure. So I still don't like this argument "you see what happens when over half of the internet relies on Cloudflare". And yes, I'm writing this as a Cloudflare user whose blog is now down because of this. Cloudflare is still convenient and accessible for many people, no wonder why it's so popular.
But, yeah, it's still a horrible outage, much worse than the Amazon one.
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#860Pretty 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.
Thankfully the usual social media are still up ... oh wait https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o