Cloudflare's outage was due to their blocklist getting too big: https://www.theverge.com/news/822869/cloudflare-is-down-outage-x-twitter-downdetector
The disruption, which started at around 6:20AM ET, is linked to a “configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic,” Cloudflare spokesperson Jackie Dutton tells The Verge. “The file grew beyond an expected size of entries and triggered a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare’s services.” Dutton added that “there is no evidence” of an attack or other malicious activity.
Just want to say, you folks is the beauty.
You're the good, the wonderful, the horses running free.
Cloudfare failed because the list of shit places on the intertubes is SO BIG it catches cloudfare in the throat evetytime it looks something up.
ADD on top of that, the unblocked terabytes of corporate handcuff, spy, insult and lie sites, and the federation looks like the only daisy floating in effluent.