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.
Is there any meta analysis on these major outages?
They seem to be occuring more and more regularly.
Maybe Kevin Fang will make a video about all combined?
My prejudice tells me that it’s vibe slopped code.
I saw people speculating about this, but it’ll be interesting to see if that’s really what it was (and if so, if they’d admit it).
I’m sure it was, and I’m sure they will not admit it.
So I’ll throw this into the “conspiracy theory, but probably true” pile; and I’ll try to remember to check snopes.com in 20 years to see if I was somehow wrong.
“Did Vibe coding really routinely break half the Internet is the 2020s?” …assuming the Internet and I are still both around by then…
Edit: I’m already wrong. It sounds like it was computers being stupid is old tried and true ways; not computers being stupid in new trendy ways.
As far as major outages, I can only think of around 10 going back 5 years. Sure there have been minor hiccups and glitches, but gosh, that’s life on the internet.
It does feel like the major outages are growing closer together.
I want to blame plugging AI where it doesn’t belong, but I suppose that putting everything into the same couple of server closets could be the primary root cause.
Yeah I have issues with my home setup at least that often. I can only think of two occasions where the solution took more effort than a reboot. Maybe we’re all just old enough for “every 6 months” to feel like every 5 mins
I don’t know how old you are brother, but it feels like I’m in one of those Star Trek warps where all the stars are just whizzing by.
It would be funny if it was because of some AI coding
Please don’t remind me. Had a colleague with a senior title who just vibecoded on our CI pipeline and it ended up blocking deployments for half a day.
Preliminary articles say this was a DDoS.
Based on what facts?
A statement from cloudflare blamed “a spike in unusual traffic”, but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/cloudflare-down-outage-traffic-spike-x-chatgpt.html
Technically a DoS, but not in the most common sense
A DDoS that brings down the biggest(?) DDoS protection provider?
def possible, cloudflare DDoS their own dashboard a few months ago with some react code
https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-into-cloudflares-sept-12-dashboard-and-api-outage/
I almost didn’t notice and the all sites I wanted to look had had been archived on archive.org
My own DNS is still up and strong. Take that, Cloudflare.
Well, unless it came back in the last 25 minutes, it’s working fine in Western Australia.
Still having problems, their status page confirms the issue is still ongoing. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Downdetector isn’t working in the app.
Because downdetector is cloudflare
Took down Framework’s website, which I was using.
You mean Cloudflare is down this evening. Timezones, how do they work?
Classic case of US egoism/defaultism
And it’s taken down most of Lemmy’s “selfhosted” images.
Eggs, baskets, and lessons being taught about how it’s not a good idea to heavily skew their ratio.
I was having DNS issues yesterday using cloudflare’s DoH, so I’m curious if it is going to be related.
I wish they go down more, at least once a month.
I saw many missing pictures today as my Lemmy instance is set to not cache pictures
I don’t use cloudflare but the only reason I noticed is a lot of websites I go on use cloudflare captcha due to me using a vpn. Now I can’t even get on those website due to the captcha being down 😭
So far this year its been:
- AWS was massively down
- Azure was down a week later
- Cloudflare down multiple times this year
Thats the ones that affect stuff at work. Fun times.
Dang. I had to look it up, but CrowdStike taking down a huge percentage of Windows PCs was so last year, I guess.
Azure was down? Did anyone notice? 😆
If you’re stuck with Windows at work, you might have. I couldn’t log on to our domain remotely and was unable to open some documents and emails that were signed as “internal use only”.
It’s a vibe.
My services have a higher uptime than AWS, Azure and Cloudflare despite the fact that they are running on 10 year old hardware
took much of lemmy.world down. I wonder how come I’m seeing some posts from lemmy.worlders though
Cloudflare have a large international network. Perhaps some users could access sites when coming from another region
