Cloudflare is a standard piece of kit for any moderately popular website. It handles things like strict SSL enforcement, anti ddos (this is a big reason), and other edge networking functions that modern websites need.
well if your website is supposed to be used to check the status of other websites why make it so that if cloudflare goes down (which is when more people would use your website) your website also becomes unusable
Edge networking services can be expensive and Cloudflare offers a free tier which is decent. Additionally, I’m sure down detector has a method of making money, but I sure don’t pay them. I can’t imagine I’m the weird one. So they are almost certainly operating on a tight budget.
It’s fresh in our minds today, but these big providers are way more reliable than not. It makes sense to use them because they are generally not down.
It just doesn’t make sense to do anything different. I doubt they change even after this outage. I certainly wouldn’t.
I'm so deep in open source and avoiding big techs, that those recent outages didn't even affect me to the point that I wouldn't even know about it if it wasn't for the news, and I'm proud of it.
I'm not super deep into it, but I honestly hardly noticed. Only when I ended up at reddit for some obscure tech issue did I notice it and 10 minutes later it worked again. The thread turned out to be useless anyway.
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Can we get it to permanently kill xitter?
Ao3 was the only thing of any cultural value on this list.
I guess grinder is important too.
why does downdetector rely on cloudflare.....
Cloudflare is a standard piece of kit for any moderately popular website. It handles things like strict SSL enforcement, anti ddos (this is a big reason), and other edge networking functions that modern websites need.
well if your website is supposed to be used to check the status of other websites why make it so that if cloudflare goes down (which is when more people would use your website) your website also becomes unusable
Cost and risk.
Edge networking services can be expensive and Cloudflare offers a free tier which is decent. Additionally, I’m sure down detector has a method of making money, but I sure don’t pay them. I can’t imagine I’m the weird one. So they are almost certainly operating on a tight budget.
It’s fresh in our minds today, but these big providers are way more reliable than not. It makes sense to use them because they are generally not down.
It just doesn’t make sense to do anything different. I doubt they change even after this outage. I certainly wouldn’t.
I'm so deep in open source and avoiding big techs, that those recent outages didn't even affect me to the point that I wouldn't even know about it if it wasn't for the news, and I'm proud of it.
Piefed went down for me so it might just be your location
I'm not super deep into it, but I honestly hardly noticed. Only when I ended up at reddit for some obscure tech issue did I notice it and 10 minutes later it worked again. The thread turned out to be useless anyway.
So that’s why I didn’t get laid today 😞
That, or maybe you should stop using LoL for hookups.
Oof the most toxic dating app
Twitter, OpenAI and Grinder…
The republicans must have been loosing their shit during the blackout without their echo chambers.
This killed my piracy sites while i was trying ti watch something