Everyone laughs when AWS collapses, everyone is silent when Cloudflare collapses. Why? Because the place to laugh has collapsed.

▲ tzpbingo 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because those who were mocking him couldn't speak, X also crashed.

▲ r0fl 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Peter Levels wisdom about why to host not on aws not looking so wise right now

	▲	basilgohar 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are places other than AWS to host.

▲ belter 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One is every seven years... the other one is a ...monthly event?: https://hn.algolia.com/?https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=al...

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ceejayoz 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Most of those aren’t outages, and both providers have big blips.

Globally meaningful outages of either are quite rare.

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mvdtnz 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is at least the third time in the past year that Cloudflare has caused a significant outage of my product.

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6031769 9 hours ago | parent [-]

And you are still using them because ... ?

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mvdtnz 9 hours ago | parent [-]

We handle ~2M requests per second and CF eliminates about ⅔ of those. We need CF or something like it. Multi edge is harder than it sounds at very large scale.

	▲	viraptor 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are still alternatives like Bunny https://status.bunny.net/history (may not be for everyone, but I like to post the CF alternatives so it becomes ever so slightly less of a default)

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belter 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Its actually way more than monthly... It seems nobody does outages like Cloudflare...

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=8

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=7

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=6

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=5

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=4

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=3

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=2

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=1

	▲	ceejayoz 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status has regular disruptions like this, too (click the button labeled "list of events"; several a month even just in North America). All the major cloud providers have regular incidents. Most go unnoticed, because they’re small or short. The really big AWS ones go on https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/pes/
	▲	curious_curios 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I at least respect them for reporting them. It feels like lots of cloud providers don’t, or begrudgingly.

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▲ exe34 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Down detector broke.... :-D

▲ techguy1954 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, how ironic. The site that is designed to tell you if something else is down, is currently down.

▲ dspillett 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Life imitates art, Red Dwarf ~1989:

    Lister: What's the damage Hol? 
    Holly:  I don't know. The damage report machine has been damaged.

	▲	tfiskgul 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It also reminds me of this part of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/661/mostly-harmless-...

▲ mlrtime 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Who is silent?

▲ matt-p 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cloudflare down because of a DDOS is extremely funny.

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sammy2255 9 hours ago | parent [-]

There's no evidence to suggest it was a result of a DDoS attack

	▲	simondotau 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's true, but there is evidence that it would be extremely funny.
	▲	matt-p 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		There's no public evidence. Lets wait for the blog post.
	▲	freakynit 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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▲ Hedepig 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Except on HN

HAHA!

Our servers are still down, though

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sutton12345 10 hours ago | parent [-]

HAHAHAHA

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imdsm 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry

Maybe I'll do both

	▲	sutton12345 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		YEP that's the case nowwwww

▲ brazukadev 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Everyone laughs when AWS collapses, everyone is silent when Cloudflare collapses

Everyone laughs when Azure collapses too

▲ AnkerSkallebank 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Everyone is silent when Cloudflare collapses. Same goes for Azure, but that is because noone uses it.

	▲	imdsm 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When Azure goes down: Oh well When Cloudflare goes down: Oh no

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▲ timeon 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This would be true in the past but now most people are not on Twitter.

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JdeBP 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sadly, I can report that this has brought down 2 of the major Mastodon nodes in the United Kingdom.

Happily, the small ones that I also use are still going without anyone apparently even noticing. At least, the subject has yet to reach their local timelines at the time that I write this.

2 of the other major U.K. nodes are still up, too.

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weberer 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Most people" were never on Twitter to begin with. However its number of monthly active users have only grown since 2020.

	▲	timeon 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> However its number of monthly active users have only grown since 2020. Like everywhere it is mostly bots. Look at HN frontpage, there used to be 1-2 Twitter post per day. Now it is barely per week. End even those are usually just from two accounts (Karpathy and Carmack).

▲ andrew-jack 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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▲ pelagicAustral 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

OMG! today of all days!

	▲	nrhrjrjrjtntbt 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Black Tuesday