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Everyone laughs when AWS collapses, everyone is silent when Cloudflare collapses. Why? Because the place to laugh has collapsed.

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One is every seven years... the other one is a ...monthly event?: https://hn.algolia.com/?https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=al...

Most of those aren’t outages, and both providers have big blips.

Globally meaningful outages of either are quite rare.

This is at least the third time in the past year that Cloudflare has caused a significant outage of my product.

And you are still using them because ... ?

We handle ~2M requests per second and CF eliminates about ⅔ of those. We need CF or something like it. Multi edge is harder than it sounds at very large scale.

There are still alternatives like Bunny https://status.bunny.net/history (may not be for everyone, but I like to post the CF alternatives so it becomes ever so slightly less of a default)

Its actually way more than monthly... It seems nobody does outages like Cloudflare...

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=8

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=7

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=6

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=5

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=4

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=3

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=2

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history?page=1

I at least respect them for reporting them. It feels like lots of cloud providers don’t, or begrudgingly.

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status has regular disruptions like this, too (click the button labeled "list of events"; several a month even just in North America).

All the major cloud providers have regular incidents. Most go unnoticed, because they’re small or short.

The really big AWS ones go on https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/pes/

Because those who were mocking him couldn't speak, X also crashed.

> Everyone laughs when AWS collapses, everyone is silent when Cloudflare collapses

Everyone laughs when Azure collapses too

Peter Levels wisdom about why to host not on aws not looking so wise right now

There are places other than AWS to host.

Down detector broke.... :-D

Yeah, how ironic. The site that is designed to tell you if something else is down, is currently down.

Life imitates art, Red Dwarf ~1989:

    Lister: What's the damage Hol? 
    Holly:  I don't know. The damage report machine has been damaged.

It also reminds me of this part of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/661/mostly-harmless-...

Cloudflare down because of a DDOS is extremely funny.

There's no evidence to suggest it was a result of a DDoS attack

That's true, but there is evidence that it would be extremely funny.

There's no public evidence. Lets wait for the blog post.

Everyone is silent when Cloudflare collapses. Same goes for Azure, but that is because noone uses it.

When Azure goes down: Oh well

When Cloudflare goes down: Oh no

This would be true in the past but now most people are not on Twitter.

Sadly, I can report that this has brought down 2 of the major Mastodon nodes in the United Kingdom.

Happily, the small ones that I also use are still going without anyone apparently even noticing. At least, the subject has yet to reach their local timelines at the time that I write this.

2 of the other major U.K. nodes are still up, too.

"Most people" were never on Twitter to begin with. However its number of monthly active users have only grown since 2020.

> However its number of monthly active users have only grown since 2020.

Like everywhere it is mostly bots.

Look at HN frontpage, there used to be 1-2 Twitter post per day. Now it is barely per week. End even those are usually just from two accounts (Karpathy and Carmack).

Who is silent?

Except on HN

HAHA!

Our servers are still down, though

HAHAHAHA

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry

Maybe I'll do both

YEP that's the case nowwwww

OMG! today of all days!

Black Tuesday

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