I always love it when some massive piece of web infrastructure goes down but most websites I use are self-hosted so the only real effect is I see lots of news stories that cloudflare is down.
My own DNS is still up and strong. Take that, Cloudflare.
Eggs, baskets, and lessons being taught about how it’s not a good idea to heavily skew their ratio.
I was having DNS issues yesterday using cloudflare’s DoH, so I’m curious if it is going to be related.
Stop using that solved
So far this year its been:
- AWS was massively down
- Azure was down a week later
- Cloudflare down multiple times this year
Thats the ones that affect stuff at work. Fun times.
It’s a vibe.
Azure was down? Did anyone notice? 😆
Starbucks payments sure did.
Mostly at work. All our stuff was on Azure, so when it went down…I kinda just stood around for the day. It was up/down the entire day. So I went for a coffee lol.
I wish they go down more, at least once a month.
Because downdetector is cloudflare
Cloudflare capcha down
Well, unless it came back in the last 25 minutes, it’s working fine in Western Australia.
Still having problems, their status page confirms the issue is still ongoing. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Is there any meta analysis on these major outages?
They seem to be occuring more and more regularly.
As far as major outages, I can only think of around 10 going back 5 years. Sure there have been minor hiccups and glitches, but gosh, that’s life on the internet.
Yeah I have issues with my home setup at least that often. I can only think of two occasions where the solution took more effort than a reboot. Maybe we’re all just old enough for “every 6 months” to feel like every 5 mins
To clarify, by “issues” I mean “system stoppages not precipitated by me fucking with something.” I screw up my own system way more often than that lol
I don’t know how old you are brother, but it feels like I’m in one of those Star Trek warps where all the stars are just whizzing by.
Preliminary articles say this was a DDoS.
Based on what facts?
A statement from cloudflare blamed “a spike in unusual traffic”, but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/cloudflare-down-outage-traffic-spike-x-chatgpt.html
Technically a DoS, but not in the most common sense
A DDoS that brings down the biggest(?) DDoS protection provider?
def possible, cloudflare DDoS their own dashboard a few months ago with some react code
https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-into-cloudflares-sept-12-dashboard-and-api-outage/
Maybe Kevin Fang will make a video about all combined?
My prejudice tells me that it’s vibe slopped code.
I saw people speculating about this, but it’ll be interesting to see if that’s really what it was (and if so, if they’d admit it).
It would be funny if it was because of some AI coding
I am still using cloudflare tunnels for home assistant, so I am a little annoyed. On the other hand this was a much needed reminder that I need to move home assistant to pangolin/newt as well.
NAT may be insecure but it keeps chugging on
Took down Framework’s website, which I was using.
I don’t use cloudflare but the only reason I noticed is a lot of websites I go on use cloudflare captcha due to me using a vpn. Now I can’t even get on those website due to the captcha being down 😭
took much of lemmy.world down. I wonder how come I’m seeing some posts from lemmy.worlders though
Cloudflare have a large international network. Perhaps some users could access sites when coming from another region
TIL that Xitter depends on Cloudflare (I don’t have account, I just wanted to check a specific tweet). They don’t afford their own infrastructure…
sh.itjust.work is down, but lemmy.radio is up. I need to tip them.
You mean Cloudflare is down this evening. Timezones, how do they work?
Classic case of US egoism/defaultism
And it’s taken down most of Lemmy’s “selfhosted” images.
