Reminds me of the Crowdstrike incident last year.
Seems like it.
Reminds me of the Cloudflare incident this year.
And the Cloudflare incident also this year.
Reminds me of the Cloudflare incident this year.
And the Cloudflare incident also this year.
Were those as big as this one? Somehow I missed them.
Oh man, these global outages are really getting out of hand. A few days after the recent AWS and Azure outages, I suddenly noticed that I couldn’t reach certain webpages anymore. And I genuinely didn’t even bother trying to debug, because I just assumed that it’s another global outage.
In the evening, I did look into it and noticed that my router was at fault (presumably DNS got bugged by a recent update). That was just wild to me, that I genuinely deemed it more likely that several major webpages went offline together than that my home setup is fucky.
To be fair, it’s never DNS ;]
To be fair, it’s never DNS ;]
Sometimes it’s BGP.
The world’s richest man can’t even keep his own website up and accessible. But the guys hosting the fedi in their garage are just fine. Lol
tbf, the scales are slightly different
I mean, isn’t that part of the point? Decentralization to smaller systems
Can I rent some space in your garage?
Lemmy.ca was down
It reminds me more of the AWS outage last month.
It’s probably not half of the Internet, but the fact that it’s so many very visible sites should be a warning sign to everyone that the Internet is nowadays too reliant on a few points of failure (which can cause other problems, e.g. censorship).
From a security perspective when you consider this, along with our reliance on mobile phones, POS systems, digital payment processors, iot devices, cell phone providers, etc etc.
Sooner or later someone with ill intent is going to savagely fist fuck the whole fucking ecosystem to death and take a shit on the flaming wreckage.
Law enforcement neither understands nor gives a fuck about tech for the most part, unless you’re dealing with high end espionage type shit. Good luck getting officers dunning and Krueger to take action on anything suspicious when they think their ability to use an iPhone means they’re the greatest thing to happen to tech since the microprocessor.
The makers of consumer tech products could give a fuck about security. Wireless providers similarly could not give a squirt of fucking piss about security as long as you’re paying your monthly bills and they can harvest data. Politicians only care insofar as they’re able to use tech to push their moral bullshit, control and police peoples’ actions. It goes on and on and on and on.
We are reliant on all manner of tech products, both hardware and software, to participate in modern life, and yet the political apparatus treats it all like it’s disposable, as if it’s 1996 and it doesn’t matter if all of this goes to shit.
We are a naked, drunk 16 year old girl at a frat house with a sign that says “fuck me, I’m wasted” around our necks and we’re pretending like there are no consequences to this, or worse yet that nothing bad will happen.
The Spider Jerusalem of the tech world. But I want to slap some of my colleagues. The number of times I caught some making everybody administrator so they don’t have to deal with security is too high.
Does spider Jerusalem eat Palestine flies?
Cloudflare is in an interesting space. They are a service provider (ddos protection, scalable edge caching, SSL termination, etc) that allows the highly centralized internet to function. However they aren’t a gatekeeper at all. You only need cloudflare if you are in the top 5% of internet websites by volume. So when cloudflare has a problem, Lemmy isn’t affected, but Reddit is. My blog isn’t affected, but someone like https://blog.ipspace.net/ is affected.
My personal browsing habbits meant I didn’t even realize there was a cloudflare problem until I read an article about it on Lemmy. Anyway, just a tangent, but as a network engineer I’m sure i’ll be interested in the RCA.
most mortem is here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
it was not a ddos.
There’s some malicious satisfaction watching centralized internet burning in dumpster fire while your self hosted stuff is still up
Except many of us use cloudflare tunnels to reach our selfhosted kit from the internet because we’re behind CGNATs…
Isn’t cloudflare a pretty common part of remotely accessing your server? I don’t use it but I’ve seen lots of people talk about it and recommend using them.
yes. it also prevents attacks. it’s basically a necessity these days.
if you host your own stuff and get any traffic you’ll get DDoSed by bots. cloudflare prevents this by detaching your DNS from your IP and distributing requests.
just port forwarding on your home network these days… and you’ll get dozens of attacks per hour.
the internet is not ‘nice’ anymore. services like cloudflare are a necessity for any active services beyond personal use. long gone are the days you could host a web server from your bedroom.
Maybe you guys are hosting more than me but I’ve got a few ports forwarded and don’t see any unusual activity. I guess I’m just lucky.
I do use it myself (free tier only) but it’s out of ease and convenience. I’m ready to abandon it but I like the security it brings. My stuff is just personal garbage with no strict uptime requirement - if I lose public access I still have Tailscale and a VPN to my router as backup.
So, it’s a deal with the devil for sure, but it’s one I wore protection for when signing.
I haven’t exposed anything to internet and self hosted headscale instance. I’m not behind CGNAT so it was quite easy.
hell yea
Are they vibe-coding or something?
Probably
Never replace your code monkeys with clankers, boys.
They are half the internet.
Yes. All my fedi services are still happy tho :)
Most Lemmy images stopped working. And maybe what my server is showing me in terms of posts is just what it still has stored.
Edit: My server is actually much more responsive with most of the big Lemmy instances being down. I really hope 1.0 brings great improvements.
Piefed.ca
iswas down because of it :( Edit: it’s back online!
maybe if big tech stopped firing all their engineers and investing in ai, this could have been prevented.
In short: yes, because Cloudflare is the man in the middle between you and half the internet, most pages use it’s service.
i’m usually on frontends, alternatives and self-hosted services. i’m barely seeing any of those outages.
feeling cool rn ngl 😎
Cloudflare is increasingly a SPOF for the web
It’s hilariously probably at the point where it’s beneficial for them from a PR perspective to recommend alternatives to new customers now
The age old question: was it DNS or LLM?
