We seriously need to differentiate servers, otherwise the decentralization is useless.
Slrpnk worked, I had to use that during the outage.
sopuli.xyz and fedia.io both stayed up for me
I just moved my instance off of cloudflare, you’re all welcome to make an account here!
Everything was down for me. Lemmy.ca using Voyager.
We rely on Cloudflare for our instances, so unfortunately lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, and pixelfed.ca were all down during the outage
If anyone is curious, we’ve discussed why we use Cloudflare here: https://lemmy.ca/post/40252238/15009722
mine was online, but it’s pretty buggy recently.
Say it with me again: your server does not need middlemen that can break your stuff whenever they feel like it.
So, there are a couple of reasons to use CloudFlare, but I suspect that the reason that a lot of people are doing so is to deal with DDoSes, which are hard to deal with otherwise.
Like, my home instance, lemmy.today, doesn’t use CloudFlare, so it isn’t affected by a CloudFlare outage. But…it was also knocked offline for a few days about a month back by a DDoS.
A lot of major sites do depend on CloudFlare, so they probably aren’t going to have a horrendous amount of downtime — like, any issue that comes up is probably gonna have a lot of engineers banging on it pretty quickly.
you should instead just rawdog the internet, so that some 14 year old kid with access to their parents credit card can buy a booter to knock your instance offline whenever they feel like it.
I self host a wiki and use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy to protect my IP. If you know of a similarly easy to use solution I’d love to hear it.
While you were away I was browsing cloudflare memes
Piefed was down. Or at least piefed.social.
Yeah it uses cloudflare for a number of services if I recall.
FWIW I switched VPN egress to Singapore (I have two egress points up permanently and switch with foxyproxy) and was up again immediately.
You can monitor instance downtime at:
I just think clients should auto fail over to another instance. You should be able to pull posts from somewhere else but just be unable to post. No reason we can’t pull posts though.
Startrek.website :)
dbzer0 was not affected and even had a post about it.
lemmus.org was online the entire time.
- piefed.social - down
- lemmy.world - down
- slrpnk.net - up
- mastodon.social - up
