Kevin BeaumontCloudflare just jumped off a bridge, down globally.
Downdetector down as they use Cloudflare, journalists are gonna be fukken mad as how they do they say 1000 people have reported an outage
Here's what it looks like from Mastodon end for anybody interested, green is successful queues, red is failed. Unfortunately a lot of the fediverse is behind antitrans supporters, Cloudflare.
The Internet: designed to withstand an nuclear blast, reroute automatically.
Four tech companies: what if we can bring it down at any moment by typo'ing a regex string, lololol
Cloudflare say they are seeing signs of service recovery, but the failed queues are getting worse on my Mastodon server.
Cloudflare continues to investigate an hour in
Mastodon failed queue continues to grow
Cloudflare 'Change Management' in action
Hour two of the Cloudflare outage, Mastodon retry queue at record length and failed attempts at highest amount on record too.
Wild, entering hour three and still seeing sites down and about 40% failure rate on Mastodon Sidekiq queue requests.
Fun fact, if you google booter services (DDoS services), almost every major one is a Cloudflare customer. So currently, by anti-DDoS provider Cloudflare being offline, the world is a safer place.
Cloudflare says it is resolved, and my Mastodon server queue is clearing now... so prepare for DDoS to resume, since their DDoS botnet customers are back online.
Here's the 6 month Mastodon Sidekiq track, you'll see the highest amount of failures on the far right today in red - that was the Cloudflare outage.
Hopefully it encourages more #mastoadmin to consider if Cloudflare is a good choice.
17 hours from now, somebody will reply to this thread saying 'It's not down, works for me'. Always happens. I love the internet.
Andy Fletcher'It's not down, works for me'. My washing line is still working. Erm what day is it?
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Mrs Trellis, North Wales
Sterling@X31Andy @GossiTheDog
Good morning Mrs. Trellis.
We've been trying to reach you about your extended warranty . . . 😁
Good morning Mrs. Trellis.
We've been trying to reach you about your extended warranty . . . 😁
Dear John Mastodon,
My latest crop of poppies were the normal length this year so I dont have to worry about them being extended.
I put some into a salad for my husband who later told me the world was wonderful and he enjoyed watching the yellow and pink squirrels in the garden. I need to get his eyes checked because could only see the neighbours white tomcat.
Yours. Happily
Mrs Trellis, North Wales
@GossiTheDog
1.1.1.1 doesn't seem to be responding, while other Cloudflare DNS are.
1.1.1.1 doesn't seem to be responding, while other Cloudflare DNS are.
James_inthe_box
Luigi 
@GossiTheDog not even their support work, or log in, one is really lock down :/
TheTomas@GossiTheDog Decentralized Mastodon Instances behind centralized CDNs - find the misconception
Andrew Golding@GossiTheDog incoming euro-pop song about Cloudflare?
b3lt3r@GossiTheDog have they tried turning it off and back on again?
Kumar McMillan@GossiTheDog ah, that explains things 😂 thanks, I’ll go back into the forest for now
kwayk42@GossiTheDog I feel like updates from tech companies shouldn't read like something I would expect from a Mel Brooks script
Tim
@GossiTheDog is it BGP, DNS or breach - place your bets here!
Konrad
David Evans@GossiTheDog Cloudflare's Canadian site makes no mention of this.
I guess they are pretty busy right now.
I guess they are pretty busy right now.
Julia Rez@GossiTheDog
Lister?
Oh, smeg.
blueorangeblue@GossiTheDog big tech does dadaism
Jonly@GossiTheDog i mean twitter loads some times again
sijmen@GossiTheDog meanwhile, literally every mid-sized to big company: we'll just pretend that didn't happen and will not change anything :)
o ifrit 🌱@sijmen @GossiTheDog The same after CrowdStrike 2024, AWS 2025, etc.
Tom DB 🦣@GossiTheDog AI bs again?
Simon Rolfmore@GossiTheDog hosted by AWS Cloudfront from the error I saw - could just be heavy load?
TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦That explains this then....
Suddenly I was getting 500 errors so I checked
Paul Chambers🚧@GossiTheDog Here is the incident page for the Global Cloudflare Outage.
vientos@GossiTheDog As someone that used to work maintenance windows overnight, I'm willing to put money on a typo in a re-route for the other maintenance they are apparently doing at the same time.
lydia! was at eh23
yetzt@9hax @GossiTheDog i bet you only get that when the site is in your browser cache and gossi was secretly on that page earlier.
Sylvie 
@GossiTheDog Is there a pro-trans equivalent of Cloudflare that is affordable to fediverse operators?
Psycodepath@sylvie @GossiTheDog thing is, there should not be.
They are far too powerful.
ZahmbieND@sylvie @GossiTheDog There is Anubis https://anubis.techaro.lol/ for blocking web scrapers, and it's developed by someone from the fediverse (who I presume is very likely trans-friendly from a brief view of their profile). Not sure if it's as good as Cloudflare against things such as DDOS attacks, though. I'd love to hear more alternatives as well!
Pika Pika@GossiTheDog
USA having problems too
USA having problems too
Simon Greenwood@GossiTheDog We put all our customers behind Cloudflare. I'm having a lovely time.
d3v1an7@simon @GossiTheDog any clue what is actually down? We have a bunch of CF services, all seems peachy in AU? (knocks on wood furiously)
@d3v1an7 @GossiTheDog The AUS nodes might be OK, but US and EMEA aren't.
Joelozbargain.com.au is impacted.
James Tinmouth@GossiTheDog hahahah thought this exact thing, entirely due to your previous toots!
Brett
Mark Novak@brett_v2 @GossiTheDog never saw this before today. Now I have seen it twice.
Martin Hamilton@brett_v2 @GossiTheDog What you're refering to as The Internet, is in fact, Cloudflare/us-east-1, or as I've recently taken to calling it...
SiberCecurity@GossiTheDog no redundacy... Really?
@GossiTheDog I just had to log in to my Mastodon instance directly for the first time in several months because phanpy.social (my usual Mastodon client) uses Cloudflare apparently.
@GossiTheDog Well, just checked, and both Phanpy and Downdetector are back up for me. Maybe Cloudflare is recovering already?