Cloudflare went down

Crazy how vulnerable the web is to just a handful of companies.

I removed the Cloudflare DNS addresses from my router, rebooted router, still cannot access GPT. Guess websites rely on Cloudflare more than I thought. Got the Cloudflare error when trying to access My Broadband about 30 mins ago.
 
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Dashboard is still totally broken
 
Sir Peel-a-Lot said:
Crazy how vulnerable the web is to just a handful of companies.

I removed the Cloudflare DNS addresses from my router, rebooted router, still cannot access GPT. Guess websites rely on Cloudflare more than I thought. Got the Cloudflare error when trying to access My Broadband about 30 mins ago.
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Removing/changing DNS at the client level won't do anything to fix the issue. Websites proxy through Cloudflare's anycast network, so it's up to them to make their network more redundant, but to be fair, I can't remember when Cloudflare has had an outage like this, YEARS ago.
 
So far we have survived AWS, Azure and Cloudflare. Will also survive if Google Cloud goes down. Touch wood that the smaller providers don't go down this bad.

Was surprised that X was down but not xAI.
 
Well at least when the dust settles they won't have to worry about proxying quite so much of the Internet.

Tons of domains will have disabled Cloudflare proxying over the past couple of hours.

Hopefully more will reassess over the next few days.
 
Tomtomtom said:
Well at least when the dust settles they won't have to worry about proxying quite so much of the Internet.

Tons of domains will have disabled Cloudflare proxying over the past couple of hours.

Hopefully more will reassess over the next few days.
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In our case it would have been a total ballache to disable Cloudflare proxy. Just sorting out new SSL certs alone would have been a nightmare, not to mention all the page rules, security rules, etc that we use Cloudflare for. Plus changing firewall rules to allow our web servers to be exposed directly to the internet. Sucking it up for a few hours while the issue resolved itself was far more preferable.
 
adam_g said:
Removing/changing DNS at the client level won't do anything to fix the issue. Websites proxy through Cloudflare's anycast network, so it's up to them to make their network more redundant, but to be fair, I can't remember when Cloudflare has had an outage like this, YEARS ago.
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Yeah, this is beyond my IT knowledge, but as I've just discovered even people around the world not using CF DNS will have been unable to access sites like GPT, correct?
 
gregmcc said:
Move to the cloud they said....it would be more resilient and secure they said.
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It was always one or other. You get the security (and/or performance) in exchange for a loss of resilience. At the very least CF is another layer and point of failure. At worst it's a single point of failure.
 
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