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Cloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 115 points 11 months ago (7 children)

It just means the internet is built on a very flimsy stack of technologies and any of them failing causes huge downstream issues. We saw that with AWS, and now with Cloudflare.

It's only concerning if there are no alternatives, but as it stands there are other companies that all of these websites could have done a failover to when both AWS or Cloudflare went down. But they decided that their websites having a single point of failure was worth the risk over paying for having a proper backup system ready to go.

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

    Relevant XKCD, as always:

    XKCD//2347

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I like to think there was a specific person in Nebraska the author had in mind. The University there had a tap into the ARPANET back in the day and always had interesting projects going in that one wouldn't typically expect in Nebraska.

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

    And azure also went down too

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

    So many people seem to have just forgotten the crowd strike outage, which halted air traffic for a day and stopped a not-insignificant amount of public infrastructure

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