They protected the endpoints. They just weren’t able to route traffic to them.
Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike
mech@feddit.org 1 day ago
Aren’t spikes in unusual traffic the exact thing Cloudflare it’s supposed to protect you from?
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
mech@feddit.org 1 day ago
From a Cloudflare customer’s point of view, I don’t care if my site is down from a DDOS or a Cloudflare outage, but the latter seems to happen more often.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
From another cloudflare customer, if our sites still work internally it’s marginally better than them being broken both inside and outside the org as they would be if they were ddosed directly. I guess it depends on what kind of services you’re running.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
As it stands? Cloudflare is still incredibly effective at protecting customers from those DDOS attacks. Which, depending on your hosting solution, can mean very noticeable monetary savings because YOUR hardware/connection didn’t spike. And, regardless, can mean noticeable monetary savings as your engineers didn’t need to recover a crashed system because your setup was just sitting there idle.
That said: If you truly need high availability? You need to do what downdetector did and have alternatives ready in the event that Cloudflare falls over. Same as with your ISP… which should be ISPs plural.
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Yeah, but just one “unusual spike in traffic” - so it seems. /s
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ostensibly sure. But it’s like car insurance. People pay them no matter what so why bother doing what they promised?
oppy1984@lemdro.id 20 hours ago
Traffic spikes, on the Internet? One in a million chance! Now tow cloudflare outside the environment and call it a day.
brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
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BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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