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Cloudflare is down along with so many other websites. Error 502.

19 points| rishiloyola | 6 years ago |cloudflare.com

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[+] martin_a|6 years ago|reply
Why do people even use Cloudflare so extensively?

Using a CDN is not essential for every website. Just get yourself some shared webhosting or whatever for your tech blog and you are good to go, no need for fancy CDNs that go down like this.

Or is it just because it's fancy tech?

[+] skilled|6 years ago|reply
SEO definitely puts a lot of pressure on people. Most guides these days talk about performance, and performance is directly linked with services such as CDN's.

But like you say, this can definitely be resolved through Web Servers and resource optimisation.

For WordPress blogs, OpenLiteSpeed has been a godsend to run a WP blog with up to par performance.

[+] macinjosh|6 years ago|reply
Not sure why engineers insist on building their products on top of single points of failure like Cloudflare, AWS, etc. It is very short sighted to give a 3rd party so much control over your business.
[+] Cub3|6 years ago|reply
Welp there goes everyones uptime metrics for the month
[+] mhkool|6 years ago|reply
yesterday the site transferwise.com on cloudflare also was down and when it came back had intermittent issues.
[+] AliAdams|6 years ago|reply
Link to the relevant incident: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/tx4pgxs6zxdr

"This incident affects: North America (Ashburn, VA, United States - (IAD), Atlanta, GA, United States - (ATL), Boston, MA, United States - (BOS), Buffalo, NY, United States - (BUF), Calgary, AB, Canada - (YYC), Charlotte, NC, United States - (CLT), Chicago, IL, United States - (ORD), Columbus, OH, United States - (CMH), Dallas, TX, United States - (DFW), Denver, CO, United States - (DEN), Detroit, MI, United States - (DTW), Houston, TX, United States - (IAH), Indianapolis, IN, United States - (IND), Jacksonville, FL, United States - (JAX), Kansas City, MO, United States - (MCI), Las Vegas, NV, United States - (LAS), Los Angeles, CA, United States - (LAX), McAllen, TX, United States - (MFE), Memphis, TN, United States - (MEM), Miami, FL, United States - (MIA), Minneapolis, MN, United States - (MSP), Montgomery, AL, United States - (MGM), Montréal, QC, Canada - (YUL), Nashville, TN, United States - (BNA), Newark, NJ, United States - (EWR), Norfolk, VA, United States - (ORF), Omaha, NE, United States - 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