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Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 10 months ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Many websites are down, so much for decentralised internet.

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[–] 29 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Why the heck is everything stripped to them. I can't believe the grandfather's of the internet thought about a www which goes completely dark if some players like cloudflare, aws, azure etc went down. Put down these network oligarchs!

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I run a nonprofit and as soon as I got our new website up, a board member insisted the domain route through Cloudflare. I choose my battles with this guy, so I went ahead and did it. Thus, fixing a nonexistent problem means our website is now subject to Cloudflare downtime.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Easier and cheaper to outsource your site's security to someone else. God forbid you have to learn the cyber. Simple as.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Some things aren't as easy to mitigate, like DDOS attacks. If that's a legitimate concern, something like Cloudflare makes a ton of sense.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It surprises me that companies like Uber depend on them. You’d think that by the time you’re as big as Uber that you’d be able to just endure a DDoS but I guess the threat of multi-terabit DDoSs and the cost of the associated downtime would be enough to scare anybody smaller than AWS.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    And why take the risk? Just pay Cloudflare to take care of it instead of getting all the expertise in house, surely that's cheaper, no?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Why the heck is everything stripped to them

    You need some CDN to hide your server IP from DDOS. Cloudflare is the only free one. AWS and Azure are the big ones with many additional services and seemed pretty reliable. So here's 95% of the Internet probably.

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