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This is, of course, hilarious. If a single traffic spike can bring CloudFlare down for hours, and with it innumerable websites and services, what exactly is the point of CloudFlare?
Yes, I understand that a way smaller traffic spike would probably bring any individual website down if they were all hosted separately. Sure.
But bringing them *all* down at the same time would be impossible. That's resilience through independence.
#CloudFlare is a single point of failure, and it keeps failing.
@rysiek Doesn’t really sound, from the article, as a traffic spike that “would probably bring any individual website down”. Sounds to me more like “we have this program vital to our infrastructure that parses up to 128 MB from this config file, and that’s been fine for years” and now they went slightly over the magic file limit and the piece of infra panicked on config read…
@silmeth I was being very, very generous
@rysiek the Guardian’s article also had the gall to finish with “it was unlikely to be a cyber-attack as a service so large is unlikely to have a single point of failure” (despite the very article being about how it took down practically everything).
Why do better when even the media will make apologies for you?
But they have since amended the article to remove that line 😂
https://web.archive.org/web/20251118134140/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-the-internet
@rysiek And ... we all KNEW it was going to come to this!!!!
It will be interesting to see how much $JACK$ they are willing to throw at it to make it more properly resilient.
They have earned their way into their customer's beliefs that they offer a valuable and reliable service. But will they find the spend to maintain that rep?
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