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Did Cloudflare just bring down half of the Internet? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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Reminds me of the Crowdstrike incident last year.

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[–] 30 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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).

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    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.

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