Cloudflare down?https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

Cloudflare down?
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

You know the drill.

#SysAdmin #Cloudflare

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

World Big Tech Debt tour 2025!

20.10.2025 AWS
29.10.2025 Azure
18.11.2025 CloudFlare

[miro@soc.crw.li]

@rysiek Who's next?

[griffin@ohai.social]

@rysiek I gotta go with One Borked DNS Config that got replicated across the entire infrastructure.

[catileptic@chaos.social]

@miro @rysiek my money is on the transatlantic communications cable being severed because ChatGPT told someone they can make the Internet twice as fast if they segment the cable longitudinally.

[mkj@social.mkj.earth]

2025-09-04 Google
2025-10-15 Google

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_services_outages#2022%E2%80%93present_services_outage

@rysiek

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

I need the internet gatekeep^W^Wcloud providers to get their shit together, my doctor tells me this amount of popcorn is dangerous to my health.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

Yet again I will point out that because "enterprise web development" is cargo-culting these days, a single website might rely on multiple gigantic "cloud" providers at the same time.

We know these exist because when Azure was down, some were blaming CloudFlare. 🤡

There are only so many of these gigantic providers. So if a website relies on CloudFlare, AWS, and Azure simultaneously, over the last month it would have been dead in the water on three different occasions, for hours on end. 👀

[gregly@retro.pizza]

@rysiek @catsalad B-b-but refactoring spaghetti trash code and updating obsolete dependencies doesn’t result in immediate short-term gains visible on earnings spreadsheets! Won’t someone please think of the poor stockholders? 🥺

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

You can't be DDoSed if your site is down!

#CloudFlare

[etam@im-in.space]

@rysiek CDoS - Centralized Denial of Service

[esi@merveilles.town]

@rysiek

Me: Mom, i want decentralized web!
Mom: We have decentralized web at home
Decentralized web at home: website relying on AWS, Cloudflare and Azure at the same time.

[gregr@mamot.fr]

@rysiek automation ?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/widespread-cloudflare-outage-blamed-on-mysterious-traffic-spike/

[psh@kompost.cz]

@rysiek can somebody please post the schedule for advent?

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

> the root cause of the outage was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic. The file grew beyond an expected size of entries and triggered a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare’s services
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/widespread-cloudflare-outage-blamed-on-mysterious-traffic-spike/

Who would win?

#CloudFlare

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

This is, of course, hilarious. If a single traffic spike can bring CloudFlare down for hours, and with it innumerable websites and services, what exactly is the point of CloudFlare?

Yes, I understand that a way smaller traffic spike would probably bring any individual website down if they were all hosted separately. Sure.

But bringing them *all* down at the same time would be impossible. That's resilience through independence.

#CloudFlare is a single point of failure, and it keeps failing.

[mig5@goto.mig5.net]

@rysiek the Guardian’s article also had the gall to finish with “it was unlikely to be a cyber-attack as a service so large is unlikely to have a single point of failure” (despite the very article being about how it took down practically everything).

Why do better when even the media will make apologies for you?

But they have since amended the article to remove that line 😂

https://web.archive.org/web/20251118134140/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-the-internet

[silmeth@mstdn.social]

@rysiek Doesn’t really sound, from the article, as a traffic spike that “would probably bring any individual website down”. Sounds to me more like “we have this program vital to our infrastructure that parses up to 128 MB from this config file, and that’s been fine for years” and now they went slightly over the magic file limit and the piece of infra panicked on config read…