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emsixteen
I have it pointed at my domains just for basic stuff and luckily that seems to be working at least.
aurareturn
We use Render which apparently uses Cloudflare. It went down.
Hard to know what 3rd party services you depend on uses Cloudflare.
torginus
Raise your hands if you found out you use cloudflare three weeks ago.
reconnecting
Luckily there is Privacy terms that usually disclose this.
llama052
I’d argue that the big 3 cloud providers have more outages than this, only cloudflare actually lets you know.
reconnecting
I've been operating a relatively small digital platform for 15 years. We don't use Cloudflare, for bots, we use tirreno (1), which we specifically created to filter malicious traffic.
For hosting, we use a local and sovereign EU provider.
If tomorrow Cloudflare, Amazon, and Microsoft were to somehow disappear or go permanently down, I wouldn't even notice.
szundi
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balupton
If all you use them for is caching, then they could provide webhooks for their scheduled maintenance so customers can disable cloudflare during the maintenance and reenable it once it's all good.
However, for customers using other things, perhaps we need an independent cloudflare for cloudflare service that serves its own cache of your site when cloudflare is inaccessible.
Could combine the two ideas so when there is scheduled cloudflare maintenance, it switches dns to the cloudflare for cloudflare service that uses cloudflare if online but if cloudflare is offline then serves cache, and once cloudflare maintenance is finished then restore cloudflare dns.
Plex, Plexamp, and accounts in Sonos went down.
Eldodi
How crazy is it that Lime bikes become unusable if Cloudflare goes down? I hope Waymos are not on cloudflare
saretup
If Waymos do not use local models it would be a horrible decision.
hyperbolablabla
Seems incredibly irresponsible if you ask me...
ponys
This happening exactly when the ticket sale for Evanescence was happening, in which the payment method was hosted on Cloudflare was really funny,
willsmith72
including downdetector... that's annoying https://downdetector.com/status/npm/
philipp-gayret
And https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com says that https://downdetector.com/ is up! >:( What a world we live in
phito
tomudding
which is at least detected by https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector....
dlillard0
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TACIXAT
Chess dot com was affected, I got a Cloudflare internal server error at the end of one of my matches.
stacktrace
Will you consider it a stalemate if no party is able to make any further moves?
manojlds
Btw a Chess Olympiad was declared drawn and shared winners after internet issues.
TACIXAT
I would have probably considered whoever was up material as the winner, as long at there was sufficient time left.
I guess it had an active connection through the game end though, maybe web sockets. I was afraid it wasn't recorded because I played quite well!
nurettin
There are actual rules for stalemate, so it would probably just be a draw.
reassess_blind
Probably an abort. Draw awards Elo.
dwayne_dibley
hahaha, this is how I found out too!
nsiradze
This needs to be changed, whole web was stopped working - it's a big responsibility and Cloudflare should acknowledge it.
nickdothutton
Complexity is the enemy of availability (and security, and a few more things besides).
gblargg
Maybe some company could start up that had decentralized backups/mirrors/caches of websites in case cloudflare goes down...
Raise your hands if you don't use Cloudflare in your stack and are proud of your decision.
You are the future of the operational internet!