I can't rebuild my NixOS image because of this lol. (chrome install not working)
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
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#872I host everything on Linode (have for over a decade) and am never caught up in these outages.
Linode has been rock solid for me. I wanted to back this comment with uptime numbers, unfortunately the service I use for that, Uptime Robot, is down because of Cloudflare...
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#873I am paying for this shit service and this is my longest downtime I had in years. Can anyone recommend any other bottleneck to be annoyed with in future?
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#874How 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.
Currently at the public library and I can't use the customer inventory terminals to search for books. They're just a web browser interface to the public facing website, and it's hosted behind CF. Bananas.
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#875How 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.
Don't forget the CloudStrike outage: One company had a bug that brought down almost everything. Who would have thought there are so many single points of failure across the entire Internet.
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#876How 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.
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#877If 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…
Also, for anyone who only has an old global API key lying around instead of the more recent tokens, you can set:
-H "X-Auth-Email: $EMAIL_ADDRESS" -H "X-Auth-Key: $API_KEY"
Edit: and in case you're like me and thought it would be clever to block all non-Cloudflare traffic hitting your origin... remember to disable that.
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#878How 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.
because efficiency trumps redundancy in the short term, which is all that matters in a super competitive environment.
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#879Quote from The Guardian's story:
>A spokesperson for Cloudflare said: “We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services beginning at 11.20am. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors. While most traffic for most services continued to flow as normal, there were elevated errors across multiple Cloudflare services.
>“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflar...
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#880Our national transit agency is apparently a customer. The departure tables are borked, showing incorrect data, the route map stopped updating, the website and route planner are down, and the API returns garbage. Despite everything, the management will be pleased to know the ads kept on running offline. Why would you put a WAP between devices you control and your own infra, God knows.
> Why would you put a WAP between devices you control and your own infra
Checkbox security says a WAP is required and no CISO will put their neck on the line to approve the exemption.