https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Many websites are down, so much for decentralised internet.
Oh, let me check down detector to see what's impacted.
Well, shit...
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Man what's not impacted?
I host my own shit and I couldn't access it from my own house
Use a tailscale tunnel instead, or at least as backup.
I have wireguard, but I don't expose most services locally, so it wouldn't save me in this case.
Thanks though
Is there a reason you're tunneling through Cloudflare?
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Funny when downdetector is down because they use cloudflare
"Further details will be made available when we've worked out how the AI screwed us this time"
TFW Cloudflare is down but I can't tell Lemmy about it because... Cloudflare is down (and Lemmy.world uses Cloudflare).
Try a different instance. Might be nice to be off something related to cloudflare anyway.
First Amazon, then Cloudflare. I'm glad this shit only goes down when I'm asleep.
It's almost as if having two companies control half the web is a bad idea...
Azure was also down recently too lol
Why the heck is everything stripped to them. I can't believe the grandfather's of the internet thought about a www which goes completely dark if some players like cloudflare, aws, azure etc went down. Put down these network oligarchs!
I run a nonprofit and as soon as I got our new website up, a board member insisted the domain route through Cloudflare. I choose my battles with this guy, so I went ahead and did it. Thus, fixing a nonexistent problem means our website is now subject to Cloudflare downtime.
Might be a good moment to ask the Board if they'd like to go another route
What about ~~2nd~~ 54th route?
Easier and cheaper to outsource your site's security to someone else. God forbid you have to learn the cyber. Simple as.
Some things aren't as easy to mitigate, like DDOS attacks. If that's a legitimate concern, something like Cloudflare makes a ton of sense.
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Why the heck is everything stripped to them
You need some CDN to hide your server IP from DDOS. Cloudflare is the only free one. AWS and Azure are the big ones with many additional services and seemed pretty reliable. So here's 95% of the Internet probably.
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switches over to stored media
…again
CloudFlare went from the muscle of the internet to a liability.
I wonder if it's even worth it now.
Might be better to try and wing it on your own if you want reliability.
Gov and corpos will keep using it since it absolves them of responsibility.
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Just one more merger bro. I promise bro just one more merger and it'll fix everything bro. Bro... just one more merger. Please just one more. One more merger and we can fix this whole problem bro. Bro c'mon just give me one more merger i promise bro. Bro bro please i just need one more
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How the fuck is there no fallback in case of an outage?
Happy cake day!
how many outages does this make now... this is the internet now. a couple companies hold the services for the entire internet and if they have an issue it's basically the before times.
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Today, we remind you that AWS isn't the only single point of failure on the Internet.
Good thing that the dezentralized internet has a centralized arbiter that..if down, effectivly, gives the entire internet a single point of failure. As cloudflare seems to have a use, especially in modern times were everyone and their mother got an ai crawler sucking small servers dry, I wonder if there is anything left to have interconnected networks without some big shot buffering against accidently ddos
Ah.
That... would explain why I have been confused by / screaming at the internet today.
... wonderful.
Rolling internet brownouts untill the Tracer Tong ending it is then.
Multiple customers.
Yeah, 8 billion is multiple customers
Potentially
State actors: Let’s take down . . Ohhh . . Howabout cloudflare today.
I’m guessing it was actually something internal. If you look at their status page you’ll notice the outage occurred smack in between some sort of maintenance work they seem to be rolling out to most/all of their edge locations. As soon as they resolved the outage they continued with the regional maintenance updates.
Of course known maintenance windows are the perfect time for the ol’ cyberattackeroo.
let me update my notes... one second
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Paranoid people: State actors! Technical people, engineers, programmers, normal people: shit happens, people built this.
Even my fediverse instance (lemmy.world) was down. The internet was invented so shit like this would NOT happen. Fuck the corporate internet.
Oh, I thought my eduroam was just being shit today, that's good to know
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