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Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike (arstechnica.com)
submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A Cloudflare spokesperson told Ars that the cloud services provider saw “a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services,” which “caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors.”

“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,” the spokesperson said. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”

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[–] mech@feddit.org 241 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

Aren't spikes in unusual traffic the exact thing Cloudflare is supposed to protect you from?

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 3 points 3 hours ago

Traffic spikes, on the Internet? One in a million chance! Now tow cloudflare outside the environment and call it a day.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 34 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

They protected the endpoints. They just weren't able to route traffic to them. Id bet it takes a MUCH larger ddos to bring cloudflare to its knees vs your average website.

[–] Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, but just one "unusual spike in traffic" - so it seems. /s

[–] mech@feddit.org 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

From a Cloudflare customer's point of view, I don't care if my site is down from a DDOS or a Cloudflare outage, but the latter seems to happen more often.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 hours ago

From another cloudflare customer, if our sites still work internally it's marginally better than them being broken both inside and outside the org as they would be if they were ddosed directly. I guess it depends on what kind of services you're running.

[–] brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 67 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

Fission Mailed

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 25 points 13 hours ago

ostensibly sure. But it's like car insurance. People pay them no matter what so why bother doing what they promised?