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.
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.
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.
It’s a vibe.
I wish they go down more, at least once a month.
I Guess many lemmy instances are not as much decentralized as they thought.
Cache-ing is a hard problem to solve. For MANY years cloudflare was the cheapest and easiest way to solve the issue.
But the same people that started cloudflare have moved on or passed away. Now its just another corp. So yeah we are going to get downtime. In the corporate world, its the standard so no one is going to move off it.
…unless it keeps going down consistently.
For those who are in the know, does memcache work with lemmy/piefed? What is a good Cache for modern day systems?
I dont use cloudflare at all, so I didnt notice. I do see a lot of recommendation’s to host behind Cloudflare, so if they have a problem you do too
I do see a lot of recommendation’s to host behind Cloudflare, so if they have a problem you do too
Fallback to Tailscale, or any number of ways to skin the cat. At the very least, everything is accessible locally. I’m not running anything mission critical, so it was more of a minor inconvenience to me.
aussie.zone sh.itjust.works lemmy.world
all were down for me
Piefed.social was too, on my end
That was the biggest reason I didn’t choose it
I didn’t notice and I’ve been on Lemmyverse the whole day, on and off. Different time zone though (Eastern Europe) so I’m not sure how that translates to “this morning”.
Not all instances were burned. Lemmy.world that i use was though. I will make a user for backup in an instance that is not affected by cloudflare.
Lemmy.world that i use was though.
So what does that entail - the site was completely down, or images didn’t load?
Would I even notice that in my unaffected instances feed? Just no lemmy.world posts at all, or would it leave empty placeholders?
Well my user is on lemmy.world, so even if i loaded other instances i would not be logged in. The site was completely down. Old posts from lemmy.world showed on the fediverse, just no new posts while down (users could not connect or view the site).
Thanks for that!
Is there any meta analysis on these major outages?
They seem to be occuring more and more regularly.
Preliminary articles say this was a DDoS.
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/
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
It would be funny if it was because of some AI coding
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).
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.
“Further details will be made available when we’ve worked out how the AI screwed us this time”
This really should read: further details will be made available when our AI api is back up and can self-report on how it fucked up
AI: taking another hit of acid in preparation to research the reason why the last thing it did after taking acid didn’t work out.
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 down Framework’s website, which I was using.
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
Eggs, baskets, and lessons being taught about how it’s not a good idea to heavily skew their ratio.
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
My own DNS is still up and strong. Take that, Cloudflare.
And it’s taken down most of Lemmy’s “selfhosted” images.
Downdetector isn’t working in the app.
Cloudflare capcha down
Because downdetector is cloudflare
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
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.
