Reminds me of the Crowdstrike incident last year.

    • Björn@swg-empire.de
      5·
      17 days ago

      Most Lemmy images stopped working. And maybe what my server is showing me in terms of posts is just what it still has stored.

      Edit: My server is actually much more responsive with most of the big Lemmy instances being down. I really hope 1.0 brings great improvements.

  • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
    5·
    17 days ago

    It’s so funny :P just months ago one of my most used forums adopted cloudflare and many asked “Are you sure?”. Well…

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    4·
    17 days ago

    In short: yes, because Cloudflare is the man in the middle between you and half the internet, most pages use it’s service.

  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    49·
    17 days ago

    The world’s richest man can’t even keep his own website up and accessible. But the guys hosting the fedi in their garage are just fine. Lol

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    10·
    17 days ago

    Cloudflare is increasingly a SPOF for the web

    It’s hilariously probably at the point where it’s beneficial for them from a PR perspective to recommend alternatives to new customers now

  • antrosapien@lemmy.ml
    21·
    17 days ago

    There’s some malicious satisfaction watching centralized internet burning in dumpster fire while your self hosted stuff is still up

    • DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      17 days ago

      Except many of us use cloudflare tunnels to reach our selfhosted kit from the internet because we’re behind CGNATs…

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
      3·
      17 days ago

      Isn’t cloudflare a pretty common part of remotely accessing your server? I don’t use it but I’ve seen lots of people talk about it and recommend using them.

      • antrosapien@lemmy.ml
        1·
        17 days ago

        I haven’t exposed anything to internet and self hosted headscale instance. I’m not behind CGNAT so it was quite easy.

      • 4grams@awful.systemsEnglish
        3·
        17 days ago

        I do use it myself (free tier only) but it’s out of ease and convenience. I’m ready to abandon it but I like the security it brings. My stuff is just personal garbage with no strict uptime requirement - if I lose public access I still have Tailscale and a VPN to my router as backup.

        So, it’s a deal with the devil for sure, but it’s one I wore protection for when signing.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
        11·
        17 days ago

        yes. it also prevents attacks. it’s basically a necessity these days.

        if you host your own stuff and get any traffic you’ll get DDoSed by bots. cloudflare prevents this by detaching your DNS from your IP and distributing requests.

        just port forwarding on your home network these days… and you’ll get dozens of attacks per hour.

        the internet is not ‘nice’ anymore. services like cloudflare are a necessity for any active services beyond personal use. long gone are the days you could host a web server from your bedroom.

        • krashmo@lemmy.world
          2·
          17 days ago

          Maybe you guys are hosting more than me but I’ve got a few ports forwarded and don’t see any unusual activity. I guess I’m just lucky.

          • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            2·
            17 days ago

            For me what triggered getting a lot of malicious login attempts in the logs was pointing a dns record directly at my ip

            • krashmo@lemmy.world
              2·
              17 days ago

              Ah, yeah I don’t do that. Haven’t had much of a reason to so far. Only have a few minor convenience type services opened up

      • utopiah@lemmy.ml
        1·
        17 days ago

        I don’t know how many 9s I do … but I don’t care. We should not think of metrics of uptime or scalability like BigTech, we’re not them. We’re not “selling” the same “product”. To me it’s about agency, empowerment, creativity, privacy, not uptime.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    28·
    17 days ago

    Oh man, these global outages are really getting out of hand. A few days after the recent AWS and Azure outages, I suddenly noticed that I couldn’t reach certain webpages anymore. And I genuinely didn’t even bother trying to debug, because I just assumed that it’s another global outage.

    In the evening, I did look into it and noticed that my router was at fault (presumably DNS got bugged by a recent update). That was just wild to me, that I genuinely deemed it more likely that several major webpages went offline together than that my home setup is fucky.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        I mean, sure, I do understand what’s happening on a logical level. I’m just so baffled, because this whole internet thingamabob was architected by the military.
        It was intentionally built, so that parts of it could fail without disrupting the rest. When a corporation fucks up, it was supposed to take down the servers of that corporation, not also a good chunk of the rest.

        But unfortunately, this internet thingamabob is merely the closest approximation we have for the “perfect market” that economics theory calls for, so it still doesn’t actually self-regulate like that whole theory would love to believe.
        In fact, it is so much worse, because now monopolization happens across the whole planet. Particularly also because we don’t have a functioning “world government” that could enforce competition at that level via laws.

        So, the network leads to companies monopolizing on top of it and then monopolies necessitate that the respective companies do as poor of a job as possible, because this reduces costs and increases profits. As a result, major parts of this military-grade internet now falter every few weeks.

        • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          17 days ago

          Yep. The resilient system got corrupted by capitalism, which is an inherently monopolizing centralizing destabilizing enshittifying exploitation algorithm.