Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

Oh, let me check down detector to see what's impacted.

Well, shit...

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.
- Is there a reason you're tunneling through Cloudflare?
- as a general noob to self-hosting, I'm curious about this!
  do you run your stuff through a cloudflare tunnel, or have any authentication service that lives outside of your network? something has got to be causing your connections to go out and then back for a cloudflare outage to impact on your own LAN, right?
Ok uh, somehow, no one has posted this yet.
The System Is Down

Funny when downdetector is down because they use cloudflare

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

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.
The developers are lazy fuckheads. It really is that simple. And some others are vastly underfunded, but most are lazy fuckheads.
- Or maybe they're overworked and burnt out
- it ain't the devs fault lmao try the people who tell them what to do

"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

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.

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

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
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?
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.

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.

That was my ending of choice as well.
- ... When I originally played the game, and still to this day, I consider it the worst ending.
  Simply because it causes the most suffering and death.
  Illuminati ending is ... essentially status quo, nothing really changes, beyond your personal story.
  Helios ending... well, terrifying, but frankly, I trust JC.
  Play through DX IW and you'll see he... makes very persuasive arguments.
  Uh, anyway, canonically, they blended all three endings together, to set up DX IW.
  I'd say the JC/Helios ending is... fairly clearly the most optimistic ending of IW.
  Also, fun little uh, spoiler, I guess... one of the endings of DX IW features a panning/dollying shot from the vantage point of an orbital space station.
  Its looking at the Eastern US and Western Atlantic.
  ... Florida isn't present. It's almost entirely underwater, by ~2080.

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:

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

Today, we remind you that AWS isn't the only single point of failure on the Internet.

Relaying on one big entity is always a bad idea, self host powers

You gonna self host something that can eat a terrabyte per second ddos like its nothing?
- A DDoS is much less likely to target your small site.
- Sure ddos attacks would be the most difficult thing to counter

Laughs in tor, nostr, and monero. What outage?

Multiple customers.

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

.*.*?

Oh, I thought my eduroam was just being shit today, that's good to know

Crowdstrike broke down the airports last year, AWS failed a few weeks ago, and now this. Seems like someone might be probing for vulnerabilities. One morning we'll wake up to the entire Internet down, for a while.

Yes please.
- I have been actively playing my guitar as a distraction from my phone. I take it almost everywhere, and instead of scrolling my phone mindlessly, I play instead.
  I work a lot of events, so I show up early, set up, and then while I'm waiting for the event to start, I play the guitar instead of play with my phone. I'm getting to be known for it now.