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Cloudflare is down this morning (lotide.fbxl.net)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I always love it when some massive piece of web infrastructure goes down but most websites I use are self-hosted so the only real effect is I see lots of news stories that cloudflare is down.

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[–] 62 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Is there any meta analysis on these major outages?

They seem to be occuring more and more regularly.

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  • [–] 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It would be funny if it was because of some AI coding

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Preliminary articles say this was a DDoS.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Based on what facts?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    A statement from cloudflare blamed "a spike in unusual traffic", but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/cloudflare-down-outage-traffic-spike-x-chatgpt.html

    Technically a DoS, but not in the most common sense

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size

    So it was automation, but that automation might have been stupid the normal computer way, rather than stupid in the new LLM enhanced computer way.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    As far as major outages, I can only think of around 10 going back 5 years. Sure there have been minor hiccups and glitches, but gosh, that's life on the internet.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    Yeah I have issues with my home setup at least that often. I can only think of two occasions where the solution took more effort than a reboot. Maybe we're all just old enough for "every 6 months" to feel like every 5 mins

    To clarify, by "issues" I mean "system stoppages not precipitated by me fucking with something." I screw up my own system way more often than that lol

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    It does feel like the major outages are growing closer together.

    I want to blame plugging AI where it doesn't belong, but I suppose that putting everything into the same couple of server closets could be the primary root cause.

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