Reminds me of the Crowdstrike incident last year.
most mortem is here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
it was not a ddos.
In short: yes, because Cloudflare is the man in the middle between you and half the internet, most pages use it’s service.
Oh man, these global outages are really getting out of hand. A few days after the recent AWS and Azure outages, I suddenly noticed that I couldn’t reach certain webpages anymore. And I genuinely didn’t even bother trying to debug, because I just assumed that it’s another global outage.
In the evening, I did look into it and noticed that my router was at fault (presumably DNS got bugged by a recent update). That was just wild to me, that I genuinely deemed it more likely that several major webpages went offline together than that my home setup is fucky.
To be fair, it’s never DNS ;]
To be fair, it’s never DNS ;]
Sometimes it’s BGP.
Seems like it.
Reminds me of the Cloudflare incident this year.
And the Cloudflare incident also this year.
Reminds me of the Cloudflare incident this year.
And the Cloudflare incident also this year.
Were those as big as this one? Somehow I missed them.
There’s some malicious satisfaction watching centralized internet burning in dumpster fire while your self hosted stuff is still up
Except many of us use cloudflare tunnels to reach our selfhosted kit from the internet because we’re behind CGNATs…
Isn’t cloudflare a pretty common part of remotely accessing your server? I don’t use it but I’ve seen lots of people talk about it and recommend using them.
yes. it also prevents attacks. it’s basically a necessity these days.
if you host your own stuff and get any traffic you’ll get DDoSed by bots. cloudflare prevents this by detaching your DNS from your IP and distributing requests.
just port forwarding on your home network these days… and you’ll get dozens of attacks per hour.
the internet is not ‘nice’ anymore. services like cloudflare are a necessity for any active services beyond personal use. long gone are the days you could host a web server from your bedroom.
Maybe you guys are hosting more than me but I’ve got a few ports forwarded and don’t see any unusual activity. I guess I’m just lucky.
I haven’t exposed anything to internet and self hosted headscale instance. I’m not behind CGNAT so it was quite easy.
Are they vibe-coding or something?
Probably
i’m usually on frontends, alternatives and self-hosted services. i’m barely seeing any of those outages.
feeling cool rn ngl 😎
is this another ai whoopsie
Never replace your code monkeys with clankers, boys.
I have experienced Cloudstrike firsthand. I was stuck in an airport.
Weird. Didn’t notice because Cloudflare blocks my real user traffic because I have the audacity to use a VPN and Firefox with privacy extensions that block like maybe two of their arsenal of fingerprinting tools.
The age old question: was it DNS or LLM?
It’s so funny :P just months ago one of my most used forums adopted cloudflare and many asked “Are you sure?”. Well…
Lemmy.world was affected too, how come? ಠ_ಠ
Because .world definitely uses Cloudflare? https://checkforcloudflare.selesti.com/?q=lemmy.world
the silver lining to this cloud. lol
Cloudflare is increasingly a SPOF for the web
It’s hilariously probably at the point where it’s beneficial for them from a PR perspective to recommend alternatives to new customers now
