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ryujin470 ( ryujin470@fedia.io )  to Technology · 11 months ago

A massive Cloudflare outage brought down X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector

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A massive Cloudflare outage brought down X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector

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ryujin470 ( ryujin470@fedia.io )  to Technology · 11 months ago
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  • Powderhorn ( Powderhorn@beehaw.org ) 
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    Downdetector being down is rich with irony.

    • tal ( tal@lemmy.today ) 
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      There’s also istheservicedown.com, but it also appears to rely on CloudFlare.

      There’s isitdownrightnow.com, which appears not to use CloudFlare.

  • tangentism ( tangentism@beehaw.org ) 
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    The Cloudflare outage comes less than a month after a huge Amazon Web Services crash took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and other services, which was followed by issues at Microsoft Azure that brought Xbox offline for hours.

    A clear demonstration that the centralisation and over-reliance of the internet into a few corporate hands is a bad idea.

    • BurningRiver ( BurningRiver@beehaw.org ) 
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      followed by issues at Microsoft Azure that brought Xbox offline for hours.

      It’s funny how this is how the Azure outage is described. All of my customers were locked out of their M365 admin portals all day. But won’t you think of the poor Xbox users.

      As L2 support at a CSP for M365 customers, that day was fucking terrible.

  • t3rmit3 ( t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 
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    Sucks for everyone without a dope homelab/ home data center setup!

    • Melmi ( melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      It’s a trend for homelab folks to use Cloudflare themselves…

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        I’ve used CF tunnels myself, but I’m sitting at home rn so it doesn’t matter. Watched ID4 a bit ago, no streaming services necessary.

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    Cloudflare has become a privacy problem approaching that of Google. I would be happy to see the web collectively abandon its services, in favour of many smaller providers.

    • implosive_sprig ( implosive_sprig@beehaw.org ) 
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      Are they abandoning it? Where are they going instead?

  • Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) 
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    Hahahaha I am fucking vindicated.

    Fuck cloudflare.

  • cmnybo ( cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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    Maybe we shouldn’t make most of the internet reliant on one company.

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    I like the internet better this way

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