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I always love it when some massive piece of web infrastructure goes down but most websites I use are self-hosted so the only real effect is I see lots of news stories that cloudflare is down.

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[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I Guess many lemmy instances are not as much decentralized as they thought.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cache-ing is a hard problem to solve. For MANY years cloudflare was the cheapest and easiest way to solve the issue.

But the same people that started cloudflare have moved on or passed away. Now its just another corp. So yeah we are going to get downtime. In the corporate world, its the standard so no one is going to move off it.

...unless it keeps going down consistently.

For those who are in the know, does memcache work with lemmy/piefed? What is a good Cache for modern day systems?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honesty we need a open standard for caching and csam detection.

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dont use cloudflare at all, so I didnt notice. I do see a lot of recommendation's to host behind Cloudflare, so if they have a problem you do too

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I do see a lot of recommendation’s to host behind Cloudflare, so if they have a problem you do too

Fallback to Tailscale, or any number of ways to skin the cat. At the very least, everything is accessible locally. I'm not running anything mission critical, so it was more of a minor inconvenience to me.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

aussie.zone sh.itjust.works lemmy.world

all were down for me

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Piefed.social was too, on my end

[–] Uri 1 points 1 day ago

That was the biggest reason I didn't choose it

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't notice and I've been on Lemmyverse the whole day, on and off. Different time zone though (Eastern Europe) so I'm not sure how that translates to "this morning".

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not all instances were burned. Lemmy.world that i use was though. I will make a user for backup in an instance that is not affected by cloudflare.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world that i use was though.

So what does that entail - the site was completely down, or images didn't load?

Would I even notice that in my unaffected instances feed? Just no lemmy.world posts at all, or would it leave empty placeholders?

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well my user is on lemmy.world, so even if i loaded other instances i would not be logged in. The site was completely down. Old posts from lemmy.world showed on the fediverse, just no new posts while down (users could not connect or view the site).

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks for that!