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.
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.
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.
It would be funny if it was because of some AI coding
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).