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GNL
2025 Nov 18, 6:32am
GNL
2025 Nov 18, 6:32am
I know there are at least 4 super smart IT people on Pat.net so, I thought I'd ask.
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FortWayneHatesRealtors
2025 Nov 18, 6:38am
GNL says
Patrick should know, he’s been hosting his website for years.
I know there are at least 4 super smart IT people on Pat.net so, I thought I'd ask.
Patrick should know, he’s been hosting his website for years.
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Blue
2025 Nov 18, 7:25am
Cloudflare Official notifications are too generic about the outage. No details about what caused the service degradation. Mostly up after recent fixes but customer still experiencing issues.
I’d suspect that the some of the appliances are inter dependent may take some time to fully recover!
I’d suspect that the some of the appliances are inter dependent may take some time to fully recover!
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Glock-n-Load
2025 Nov 18, 7:39am
I’m back up now. My curiosity has to do with, whether or not there is a way to have a backup service to Cloudflare. If Cloudflare has a problem, my site would automatically replace Cloudflare with a similar service until Cloudflare recovers.
Does that make sense? Similar to having a generator take over until the power company recovers.
Does that make sense? Similar to having a generator take over until the power company recovers.
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Patrick
2025 Nov 18, 10:30am
Patrick
2025 Nov 18, 10:30am
Brave AI:
Cloudflare's main service is protection from Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks. Kind of ironic for your threat protection system to take you down.
Glock-n-Load says
Depends on what you use it for. It can also handle DNS and even hosting itself I think.
The way to have a backup service is to have at least two servers from different providers and a load balancer that automatically detects slow response from one of them and reroutes traffic to the other. The load balancer itself then becomes a single point of failure, so you could have two of those with round-robin DNS and quickly switch off a bad one if it fails.
But all of that costs money and is complex to set up.
The issue, which began around 6:30 a.m. ET, was caused by an automatically generated configuration file used to manage threat traffic that grew beyond its expected size, triggering a crash in the system handling traffic for several Cloudflare services.
Cloudflare's main service is protection from Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks. Kind of ironic for your threat protection system to take you down.
Glock-n-Load says
whether or not there is a way to have a backup service to Cloudflare
Depends on what you use it for. It can also handle DNS and even hosting itself I think.
The way to have a backup service is to have at least two servers from different providers and a load balancer that automatically detects slow response from one of them and reroutes traffic to the other. The load balancer itself then becomes a single point of failure, so you could have two of those with round-robin DNS and quickly switch off a bad one if it fails.
But all of that costs money and is complex to set up.
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HeadSet
2025 Nov 18, 5:45pm
HeadSet
2025 Nov 18, 5:45pm
GNL says
You assuming none of those fellows caused it.
I know there are at least 4 super smart IT people on Pat.net so, I thought I'd ask.
You assuming none of those fellows caused it.
My site uses Cloudflare and we are down right now. Is there a backup solution to something like this?