I always love it when some massive piece of web infrastructure goes down but most websites I use are self-hosted so the only real effect is I see lots of news stories that cloudflare is down.

    • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      5 hours ago

      Cache-ing is a hard problem to solve. For MANY years cloudflare was the cheapest and easiest way to solve the issue.

      But the same people that started cloudflare have moved on or passed away. Now its just another corp. So yeah we are going to get downtime. In the corporate world, its the standard so no one is going to move off it.

      …unless it keeps going down consistently.

      For those who are in the know, does memcache work with lemmy/piefed? What is a good Cache for modern day systems?

    • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
      11·
      6 hours ago

      I dont use cloudflare at all, so I didnt notice. I do see a lot of recommendation’s to host behind Cloudflare, so if they have a problem you do too

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 hours ago

        I do see a lot of recommendation’s to host behind Cloudflare, so if they have a problem you do too

        Fallback to Tailscale, or any number of ways to skin the cat. At the very least, everything is accessible locally. I’m not running anything mission critical, so it was more of a minor inconvenience to me.

    • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
      7·
      6 hours ago

      aussie.zone sh.itjust.works lemmy.world

      all were down for me

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      I didn’t notice and I’ve been on Lemmyverse the whole day, on and off. Different time zone though (Eastern Europe) so I’m not sure how that translates to “this morning”.

      • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        Not all instances were burned. Lemmy.world that i use was though. I will make a user for backup in an instance that is not affected by cloudflare.

        • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          Lemmy.world that i use was though.

          So what does that entail - the site was completely down, or images didn’t load?

          Would I even notice that in my unaffected instances feed? Just no lemmy.world posts at all, or would it leave empty placeholders?

          • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            Well my user is on lemmy.world, so even if i loaded other instances i would not be logged in. The site was completely down. Old posts from lemmy.world showed on the fediverse, just no new posts while down (users could not connect or view the site).