We seriously need to differentiate servers, otherwise the decentralization is useless.

    • MalReynolds@piefed.socialEnglish
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      14 days ago

      FWIW I switched VPN egress to Singapore (I have two egress points up permanently and switch with foxyproxy) and was up again immediately.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Say it with me again: your server does not need middlemen that can break your stuff whenever they feel like it.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      14 days ago

      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 pretry quickly.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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      14 days ago

      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.

    • passepartout@feddit.org
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      14 days ago

      I just came home and learned about the outage. Still can’t get the smirk of superiority out of my face from when I noticed my people were still able to shitpost in my absence.

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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        14 days ago

        I appreciate that different teams are doing different things, I’ll have to remember to drop by during the next cloudflare outage 😄

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    14 days ago

    sopuli.xyz didn’t have any issues. At least I could access it at any time, I don’t know if there is any lag in federation due to unavailability of other instances.

    Another important consideration is that Cloudflare outage might have been regional. Same content could be available in one region but not in another. On the Cloudflare status page they mention issues with London specifically.

  • DrDystopia@lemy.lol
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    14 days ago

    My private archiving instance. But assuming there’s still no users and federtion was broken, onlineity doesn’t really matter.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I mean, it’s easy to check whether a given instance is using CloudFlare.

    $ host lemmy.world|head -n1
lemmy.world has address 104.26.9.209
$ whois 104.26.9.209|grep ^NetName
NetName:        CLOUDFLARENET
$

    You can browse anonymously on any instance that permits doing so, so if you just want to browse during an outage, you can do that anywhere.

    IMHO, having an account on a second Threadiverse instance isn’t necessarily a terrible idea, not just because of CloudFlare outages, but because instances do have outages for various reasons. I have an account on cafe.olio (PieFed, not on CloudFlare) and on lemmy.today (Lemmy, not on CloudFlare) because I wanted to try out PieFed, and I have fallen back to that to post before if lemmy.today has issues.

    That being said, I didn’t intentionally try to avoid CloudFlare. I mean, they’re used by a lot of major sites, and I don’t expect them to have a lot of downtime. I mean, every Threadiverse instance has had downtime for some reason or another. I’ve had Internet outages, as well as electricity outages. Not all that common or usually an extended thing, but they happen.