Cloudflare is a cancer

ahem

You're not wrong. The gangly stacks of orchestrated black-box containers at a pubcloud beholden to shareholder whim is going to be a huge factor. Sorry grandma can't get her pills, but - phew - the number will still go up.

Thanks I have updated the Google link to this instead of downdector.

If you're not running your waifu on a local machine she's just a digital prostitute.

Massive internet outage reported:
Google, Cloudflare, Twitch all down

It even swapped in Twitch when I read it at the time. Headlines be changing.

It sucks because up until the "sales team" rugpull, they're the cheapest (and closest to reality) for bandwidth cost, virtually all the other CDN providers charge astronomical prices and their margins are hundreds to thousands of percentage.

Was trying to order food online and that was apparently affected.

Gotta love having all our eggs in one basket, eh? We learned something from the big ass east coast AWS outage!

tell me more

If the costs are mostly variable in how much they serve up, and uptime is sufficiently important, maybe have two CDNs and use the other one as a fallback when things start going tits-up?

A disruption to disfunctional search engines does not sound bad.

Nowadays they will tell you to work on something else in the meantime.

What is character.ai? Have I been living under a stone? When I visit the page I have to log in just to learn what it is?

It's LLMs for ERP

... What's ERP? Or don't I want to know?

The problem was actually caused by Google
Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.

I actually enjoy when this happens. All this centralized shit will not end well.

Good, we have a reason to touch grass now

Like the bad kind

I put on my robe and wizard hat