Millions of websites around the world are unreachable due to a Cloudflare outage (update)
A glitch at internet service provider Cloudflare indicates that numerous services and websites are unavailable or just partially accessible on Tuesday.
Cloudflare's website states that it is looking into "widespread difficulties with our services and/or networks." Users may get error messages and outages when attempting to access services or websites, according to the business. The cause of the outage is still unknown. It's also unclear how many websites were affected. Cloudflare's services are used by millions of websites globally. Users will receive an error message on websites that are affected by the outage. Some websites appear to load partially, but many are inaccessible.
The error seems to be NGINX pass-through specific and results in an error-code 500 server-side.
Update: The problem affected 19 data centers and 50% of traffic. Tuesday's Cloudflare outage was caused by the provider itself. The company offers technical details. Cloudflare said the outage was caused by a modification to increase resilience in busy regions. Cloudflare posted a blog on the topic here.
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A massive web network Cloudflare has suffered a DDOS attack, knocking dozens of sites offline.
Cloudflare is very used to providing its clients with DDoS protection, but over the last few months, Cloudflare has found itself a target of a few DDoS attacks. On the 27th of April 2022, Cloudflare managed to mitigate a 15M requests per second HTTPS DDoS attack. However, the attack was not successful.
Today, however (21st of June 2022) somebody managed to launch a DDoS attack against Cloudflare, knocking out dozens of company websites that relied on its network and hosting services. We don’t yet know who launched the attack, but we estimate it may be the attackers that failed to take down Cloudflare just over a month ago...
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ahmm, what?
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Someone posted pics and vids of Hunter I shared the info all over youtube ( The link) then days later the site was down and still is down.There are some good stuff where can I post it where it's safe?
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What does this mean for a normal person that has no idea what anything you wrote means.
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Having worked for one of the affected companies, had warned them years ago, never drop their own servers and infrastructure for cloud hosting.
Today they just lost several millions.
I am against the "cloud" when comes to businesses making money from their software services. A third party owns your data which can be shared with competitors, you rely to provide their services and not cut you off destroying your business.
But the IT sector is full of late millennials and GenZ who cannot understand wtf is happening around them. They are gullible lobotomized sheep believing the marketing of the latest services are better always, not thinking wth will happen if something goes wrong. Those are the people who will be lost, possibly suicide, the morning there won't be any phone/internet or electricity, because they haven't lived without them.
That from someone with 30 years career as dev and analyst.