Cloudflare is a standard piece of kit for any moderately popular website. It handles things like strict SSL enforcement, anti ddos (this is a big reason), and other edge networking functions that modern websites need.
well if your website is supposed to be used to check the status of other websites why make it so that if cloudflare goes down (which is when more people would use your website) your website also becomes unusable
Edge networking services can be expensive and Cloudflare offers a free tier which is decent. Additionally, I’m sure down detector has a method of making money, but I sure don’t pay them. I can’t imagine I’m the weird one. So they are almost certainly operating on a tight budget.
It’s fresh in our minds today, but these big providers are way more reliable than not. It makes sense to use them because they are generally not down.
It just doesn’t make sense to do anything different. I doubt they change even after this outage. I certainly wouldn’t.
I'm so deep in open source and avoiding big techs, that those recent outages didn't even affect me to the point that I wouldn't even know about it if it wasn't for the news, and I'm proud of it.
I'm not super deep into it, but I honestly hardly noticed. Only when I ended up at reddit for some obscure tech issue did I notice it and 10 minutes later it worked again. The thread turned out to be useless anyway.
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Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 38 pts · 295d
Can we get it to permanently kill xitter?
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 33 pts · 295d
Ao3 was the only thing of any cultural value on this list.
I guess grinder is important too.
webpack@ani.social · 19 pts · 295d
why does downdetector rely on cloudflare.....
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 295d
Cloudflare is a standard piece of kit for any moderately popular website. It handles things like strict SSL enforcement, anti ddos (this is a big reason), and other edge networking functions that modern websites need.
webpack@ani.social · 4 pts · 295d
well if your website is supposed to be used to check the status of other websites why make it so that if cloudflare goes down (which is when more people would use your website) your website also becomes unusable
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 295d
Cost and risk.
Edge networking services can be expensive and Cloudflare offers a free tier which is decent. Additionally, I’m sure down detector has a method of making money, but I sure don’t pay them. I can’t imagine I’m the weird one. So they are almost certainly operating on a tight budget.
It’s fresh in our minds today, but these big providers are way more reliable than not. It makes sense to use them because they are generally not down.
It just doesn’t make sense to do anything different. I doubt they change even after this outage. I certainly wouldn’t.
morto@piefed.social · 17 pts · 295d
I'm so deep in open source and avoiding big techs, that those recent outages didn't even affect me to the point that I wouldn't even know about it if it wasn't for the news, and I'm proud of it.
Lojcs@piefed.social · 8 pts · 295d
Piefed went down for me so it might just be your location
Pringles@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 295d
I'm not super deep into it, but I honestly hardly noticed. Only when I ended up at reddit for some obscure tech issue did I notice it and 10 minutes later it worked again. The thread turned out to be useless anyway.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 295d
So that’s why I didn’t get laid today 😞
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 295d
That, or maybe you should stop using LoL for hookups.
zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 294d
Oof the most toxic dating app
BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 295d
Twitter, OpenAI and Grinder…
The republicans must have been loosing their shit during the blackout without their echo chambers.
SushiSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 295d
This killed my piracy sites while i was trying ti watch something