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”
Is AI the new DNS?
DNS is necessary
Touché
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
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.
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.
Ddos? Aren’t we aware of this with fail2ban?
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
I still don’t understand how that shit is possible to do so willy-nilly. Do these lawmakers and MBAs not see the endgame on this one? Has it not been clear where this leads?
Ugh, I speak as if they care.
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.
DDOS protection in 2025:
How the fuck is there no fallback in case of an outage?
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.
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.
Relaying on one big entity is always a bad idea, self host powers
Multiple customers.
Yeah, 8 billion is multiple customers
Potentially
DNS? DNS.
Pork rinds? Pork rinds.
Porkchop Sandwiches!
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.
I’m guessing it was actually something internal.
My sources tell me it was a Russian egg sac that hatched early and shorted out some power rails. It’s plausible, it certainly can’t be the house of cards nature of modern systems.
Paranoid people: State actors! Technical people, engineers, programmers, normal people: shit happens, people built this.
Just because you’re paranoid, don’t mean they’re not after you
Ah yes, the age old tale of The Boy Who Cried State Actor.
Yeah that almost never happens. Besides they’re covered by the comprehensive protection of CrowdStrike. And Microsoft.
Even my fediverse instance (lemmy.world) was down. The internet was invented so shit like this would NOT happen. Fuck the corporate internet.
