Also the irony that some “is it down”-detectors using Cloudflare are also down.
Who’s willing to bet it’s DNS ?
The status page is overloaded and just gives http 504 errors. Kind of ironic that a cdn provider gets that type of error.
Works for me now as well. I guess it was a temporary thing. Still not something you would expect.
Even though I don’t host anything important, I’m still glad I found alternative ways to hosting my own stuff without the use of any of Cloudflare services.
I’ve noticed over time that the self-hosted communities have been suggesting Cloudflare Tunnels less and less since Trump and his gang took over America. Maybe this latest outage will push more people to not recommend Cloudflare again in the future.
I still remember when I first got into self-hosting and being mocked pretty hard for questioning the use of such a large centralized service like Cloudflare. I’m glad I persisted and kept learning in my own direction but that still was very demotivating at the time.
I think the only thing that is very had to replicate from cloudflares ia ddos protection since they take the hit instead.
True.
My self-hosting strategy is wildly alternative and not one I speak much about publicly. I’m the only person connecting to my own domain so as long as I continue to practice shutting the fuck up, I can get away with using multiple layers of obscurity rather than fiddling with third party solutions.
I check my logs daily and the only activity I ever see is my own. Since I am not hosting anything critical or sensitive, I have the opportunity to experiment this way without much risk to myself.
The way I’m set up, I am not concerned with DDOS attacks because it would fail to get past the Dynamic DNS. If I were hosting a social media platform or something more public, then I would need to take stronger measures to protect myself and that data.
The only thing I use CloudFlare for is encrypted DNS stuffs, other suggestions for this?
Thanks for the rec, I’ll have a gander, and try it out next day I have free!
Pretty quiet on lemmy without .world and .ca and whatever else. I’m glad to see beehaw still up.
Glad to see it doesn’t use cloudflare.
All three instances I have accounts on use CF. I was beginning to think it was my client I was using or they suddenly implemented the “Great Firewall of USA” and figured out a way to block Lemmy instances.
both lemmy.world and lemmy.ca are working for me right now? Maybe they’ve come back up.
Ahhhh, feels so good to be proven correct.
Stop using centralised services, especially botnet like ones that protect fascist harassers.
Had to get that account back as piefed.zip, piefed.social and lemmy.zip cannot be accessed.
Cool to see other people still able to access the Threadiverse
Ye we’re not relying on cloudflare for precisely this reason.So much of the “decentralized” internet just got brought down by one providing failing.
Thank you as always for your service!
Edit: surprisingly https://anarchist.nexus/ seems to use CF
shakes fist tenchikeeeeeeeeen!!!
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Discuss.online is still going strong!:-)
On the other hand, the only Piefed instance that is still up is https://piefed.blahaj.zone/ it seems
I should really move my domains away from CloudFlare…
T-thanks cloudflare!!!
Ah, the famous service that is too big to ever fail, fails again…
