Massive Cloudflare Outage

[Umami]

Update: Cloudflare has confirmed what has caused an ongoing outage of many popular services across the web, and it says a "fix is being implemented." In an update at 8:10 a.m. EST, the brand said it was continuing to work towards restoring services.

Since then, reports on Downdetector have increased substantially with more services experiencing outages than first thought. Users are having issues on Amazon, Canva, ChatGPT, Claude, Doordash, Grindr, Indeed, Truth Social, Uber, X, and Zoom. It's not guaranteed all of these issues stem from Cloudflare's problems, but it's likely as many are being reported at a similar time with spikes around 8:30 a.m. EST.

Cloudflare said at 8:59 a.m. EST, "We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers." For now, there's no clear idea of when full service will resume across these apps and websites.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/cloudflar...chatgpt-x-more

[Retiree]

All has been resumed by now. But scary how many websites are dependent on their service. Many will probably think twice about it now.

[Farang]

i’ve grown to love ruby on rails quite a bit during the past year. it is one framework that’s working on simplifying web dev unlike all the countless js agents of complexity. what genius has come up with the idea to separate an application into backend and frontend anyway? there is no good reason for that.

also the story of rails is quite interesting: ruby was developed in japan by Matz i believe hes called, then copenhagen programmer DHH, who is one hell of a character btw, chose ruby as his main tool and created rails on top of it.

rails has grown to be more than a framework. i don’t even know if people use ruby without rails these days, do you know?

[NatalieK]

Originally Posted by Retiree

All has been resumed by now. But scary how many websites are dependent on their service. Many will probably think twice about it now.

no, admireme is still offline, cloudflare itself was 500 earlier & GFY, escortfans is back online...


but many sites are still offline

[plsureking]

Originally Posted by Farang

i’ve grown to love ruby on rails quite a bit during the past year. it is one framework that’s working on simplifying web dev unlike all the countless js agents of complexity. what genius has come up with the idea to separate an application into backend and frontend anyway? there is no good reason for that.

welcome to your first year of programming

there's a lot of reasons to separate the stack. the main reason is most people are handling a lot of data and traffic. if your front-end is processing data, then its overloaded. all it needs to do is fetch and display.

wait until you get to event driven programming. you will shit yourself.

regarding the cloudflare outage - wtf are these companies thinking? i get it for gfy, its a cheap and easy traffic filtering solution. but for major sites like X? they can't build their own fucking gateway?

i don't rely on any 3rd party services for anything except data APIs. i built everything we need into our private cloud. and yes the front-ends and back-ends (and video converters and media streamers) are on separate servers.

#porncms

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by plsureking

welcome to your first year of programming

#porncms

[Rochard]

This seems to be causing issues with email routing too.

[Farang]

Originally Posted by plsureking

welcome to your first year of programming

there's a lot of reasons to separate the stack. the main reason is most people are handling a lot of data and traffic. if your front-end is processing data, then its overloaded. all it needs to do is fetch and display.

wait until you get to event driven programming. you will shit yourself.

ruby on rails is both frontend and backend and it scales like a champion…