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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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[–] 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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