Cloudflare explains outage that took down many websites

[aybbleek]

downdetector is even down because of cloudflare outage

 

[Jan]

Thanks, okes. I wonder what's happening this time that seems to be leaving us unscathed.

 

[oldBastard]

its down again

Yup and so Take-A-Lot, same time.

 

[My_King]

Never deploy to Prod on a Friday

 

[ToxicBunny]

Never deploy to Prod on a Friday

CI/CD FTW when it comes to working overtime on a weekend.

 

[Sinbad]

Yup and so Take-A-Lot, same time.

View attachment 1868924

That error would not affect normal traffic.

In fact, myBB is behind cloudflare.
steven@pi:~ $ host mybroadband.co.za
mybroadband.co.za has address 104.20.34.25
mybroadband.co.za has address 172.66.163.159
mybroadband.co.za mail is handled by 1 mail.mybroadband.co.za.
steven@pi:~ $ whois 104.20.34.25

#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/
#
# If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
# https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/
#
# Copyright 1997-2025, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd.
#


NetRange: 104.16.0.0 - 104.31.255.255
CIDR: 104.16.0.0/12
NetName: CLOUDFLARENET


So the fact you're reading this means CF is serving content just fine.

/edit that being said, I'm seeing cloudflare errors on some other sites now, so it looks like some kind of spreading failure.

fkn vibe coders.

 

[adam_g]

 

[ToxicBunny]

fkn vibe coders.

Was my first thought as well.

 

[ameetr]

looks like its coming back now

 

[oldBastard]

And it looks like it's back, CF with Take-A-Lot and other sites as well.

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996865108396458051

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996868154187042997

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996865726553227291

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996869559337529519

 

[Jan]

Looks like it's back. Why couldn't they have fixed the problem that knocked us offline in 16 minutes?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Never deploy to Prod on a Friday

Going to be doing a deploy to prod today myself .

We have a rule to never do this but sometimes circumstances aren't ideal.

Funny thing is the Cloudflare outage is preventing us from getting a build out

 

[ToxicBunny]

Looks like it's back. Why couldn't they have fixed the problem that knocked us offline in 16 minutes?

Vibe Coders bruv... no error messages and AI sending them in circles.

 

[W@P]

WTF is a vibe coder?

I only know of decoder, the kak DSTV used to sell.

 

[W@P]

Or is it the okes that code the vibes on womans vibrators?

 

[Sinbad]

WTF is a vibe coder?

I only know of decoder, the kak DSTV used to sell.

Lazy useless idiots who use generative AI to do their coding work for them.

 

[Brian_G]

Internet users need to shake loose these monopolisers.

 

[FiestaST]

WTF is a vibe coder?

I only know of decoder, the kak DSTV used to sell.

Well explained: