https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Many websites are down, so much for decentralised internet.
How the fuck is there no fallback in case of an outage?
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2025
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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...
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.
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
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.
I have wireguard, but I don't expose most services locally, so it wouldn't save me in this case.
Thanks though
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?
I use them as a DDNS, and a first line of defence.
It seems very wasteful, doesn't it?
The truth is that I often need to access these from a device that doesn't have local access to the server, such as a company laptop, or a phone on mobile network.
This is also given for anyone outside of my house.
As such, I often don't bother setting up local access, except for specific services that are critical or use a lot of bandwidth that can go locally.
Not to mention password and bookmark management, which is a little part, but it can get out of hand (I have about 50 services/front-ends).
TLDR: Your can use cloudflare or alternatives with fallback on local for most services, if you set it up that way
got it! I don't have that many hosted services, but for my limited external clients that need to connect, I get by with what tailscale has to offer at least for now!
thanks for the breakdown!
Maybe cloudflare DNS 1.1.1.1?
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?
Sure ddos attacks would be the most difficult thing to counter
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.
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.
Funny when downdetector is down because they use cloudflare
DNS? DNS.
Pork rinds? Pork rinds.
Porkchop Sandwiches!
God, screw this stupid roadblock of a nuisance. I have to go through this piece of shit everytime I need to log-in to my bank account's app. Sometimes it'd even fail and I won't go through. Even if I did go through, I have to double-verify anyways! I'm so over this stupid era of verifying yourself multiple times.
"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
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
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.
Today, we remind you that AWS isn't the only single point of failure on the Internet.
Oh, I thought my eduroam was just being shit today, that's good to know
State actors: Let’s take down . . Ohhh . . Howabout cloudflare today.
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.
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
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.
Multiple customers.
Yeah, 8 billion is multiple customers
Potentially