Several Major Websites and Services Are Down Right Now Due To a Hosting-Platform Outage (businessinsider.com) 39
No, it's not just you -- major websites across the internet are down as of Tuesday morning. From a report: That's because Cloudflare is experiencing issues, according to the website-hosting platform itself and hundreds of tweets from frustrated social media users. Cloudflare is an internet-hosting platform that many internet services rely on to remain functioning and protected in the case of a distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attack. An outage from Cloudflare affects internet services globally. Flightradar, a site that tracks flights, is down, for example. And so is Coinbase Pro, a cryptocurrency service.
all Cloud vendors seem to have stuff like this fro (Score:2)
all Cloud vendors seem to have stuff like this from time to time.
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Re: all Cloud vendors seem to have stuff like thi (Score:1)
I dont always test my software, but when I do I test in Prod.
frustrated social media users (Score:1, Funny)
As this has primarily impacted social media, it is a net improvement in our lives.
Not having this problem... (Score:1)
With my local storage and local games. Happy clouding!
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Something is there (Score:2)
Facts and Information (Score:4, Informative)
From the horse itself.
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ [cloudflarestatus.com]
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/tx4pgxs6zxdr [cloudflarestatus.com]
Github . . . ? (Score:2)
My github clone is crawling right now . . . could this be a side effect . . . ?
Darn, and here I wanted to blame it on Microsoft.
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Surely Github is hosted on Azure by now right?
But but, its The Cloud! (Score:3)
Resilience, 24/7, multipoint failover. I'm sure thats what it said in the brochure. Were we lied to?? Say it aint so!
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And then you choose one company.
Game over.
Your single point of failure was a single control system operated on a single set of servers. They may be spread around the world, but all those other companies were unaffected.
The ridiculousness of cloud is not all the things you state - it's that you then go with only a single cloud provider.
You gather your eggs up in multiple baskets, so that you don't have then all in them, then send them to market in the back of the same van. Boom. All your eggs are gone.
Clo
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That's not how DNS works. You can have round-robin DNS to roughly balance the load, but the requesting computer won't necessarily try the other servers if one shoots back an error message. Even if you refresh, it's likely to pull from the local DNS cache or the DNS server's cache and get the same result. At
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It's probably in the contract. Something spiffy like "99%" uptime guaranteed. Which, ofc, means that the site may be down for 3.65 days of the year for an unscheduled outage. Usually they don't include scheduled outages within this number, so the unavailability during the year may be more.
Better information links (Score:3)
TFA is paywalled.
Better and more direct info is available from:
https://www.cloudflarestatus.c... [cloudflarestatus.com]
https://statusgator.com/servic... [statusgator.com]
Cloudflare DNS Too? (Score:1)
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Anybody who does GeoIP on the requesting nameserver via DNS rather than the actual source IP via Anycast in international locations deserves the crappy reputation of having a slow download, pushing people to better-run sites.