Your Web Site is Connected to the Net and the Server is Powered On, But Cloudflare Takes It All Down
Hours ago: Today is an Excellent Day To Remind People to Dump Clownflare (Cloudflare)
Many government (i.e. public sector) Web sites use Clownflare (Cloudflare), even sites that aren't American. Those governments have in effect outsourced their operations to the US. The US gets to spy on what local citizens do in their own country (outside the US). Then there are technical perils, as well. I ought to know, having worked for some of those government entities which relied on Clownflare (Cloudflare) and suffered downtimes due to that.
Not every month do these technical perils become very profound and highly visible. It happens about once and year and once it hits, the problem can last many hours.
As it turns out, even Twitter (now "X") relies on Clownflare (Cloudflare), perhaps because it lacks technical staff, so this is what happened today: "Today felt very dramatic. But it’s nowhere near the biggest outage of recent years. Here’s a rundown of some of the worst."
A lot of social control media was offline due to this.
Another publisher in the UK said: "The outages took place in the early hours of US morning and during UK business hours" (hard not to notice).
This wasn't even their worst outage. The national broadcaster noted: "Another major web services provider, Microsoft Azure, was also affected shortly afterwards."
Many sites not only outsourced to Clown Computing (typically GAFAM); then they outsource to - or route through - Clownflare (Cloudflare), which means even more layers where things can go very wrong.
A service outsourced is not a more robust service. Anything outsourced means that yet another party can get things wrong, resulting in problems for everyone else "in the chain". █