If you wanted proof of how reliant the Internet is on content delivery network Cloudflare, this should provide you proof of that. For the second time in a few weeks, Clouldflare takes down the Internet due to an issue that they have resolved as I type this according to their status page. The incident began around 09:00 UTC, and affected much of the web with X, Substack, Canva, LinkedIn, Deliveroo, Spotify, and ironically Downdetector which reports on outages on the Internet, among others going down.
What this makes clear is that putting all of your eggs in the Cloudflare basket isn’t a good idea. Thus maybe there needs to be a wide ranging discussion on how to make the Internet more resilient without relying on a single provider. Just a thought.
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Cloudflare Took A Dirt Nap And Tanks The Internet AGAIN
If you wanted proof of how reliant the Internet is on content delivery network Cloudflare, this should provide you proof of that. For the second time in a few weeks, Clouldflare takes down the Internet due to an issue that they have resolved as I type this according to their status page. The incident began around 09:00 UTC, and affected much of the web with X, Substack, Canva, LinkedIn, Deliveroo, Spotify, and ironically Downdetector which reports on outages on the Internet, among others going down.
What this makes clear is that putting all of your eggs in the Cloudflare basket isn’t a good idea. Thus maybe there needs to be a wide ranging discussion on how to make the Internet more resilient without relying on a single provider. Just a thought.
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