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Am I wrong to use this as an excuse to not use Cloudflare?
by mproud 4y ago
Am I wrong to use this as an excuse to not use Cloudflare?
- jopsen 4y agoHow about waiting a bit first.. Maybe, things are back faster than you could cover from any trivial issue.
- 0xFACEFEED 4y agoIt's been 30+ minutes. All of my home's Ring cameras have been inaccessible this entire time. It's not that big of a deal for me because I planned for that eventuality, but a lot of people have not. If you run a critical service (like Ring) and your infra is tied to CloudFlare - you're stuck! There is nothing at all you can do. That's freaking scary man. If I was working infra at Ring I'd much prefer to get paged and start fixing the problem. There are very few problems that can't be fixed in 15 minutes if you plan well for failover...
- imafish 4y agoOf course not. If you don't need Cloudflare, don't use it :) For anyone else needing their services, they are a perfectly reliable provider (most of the time). Would make sense to ensure a fail-over, though.
- sph 4y agoApparently yes, people in here are quick to defend our new overlord. "But they're great", they cry, "why should I use anything else?"
- dx034 4y agoI'd love to use another company, but there's no one offering the same for the same price tag. Most of their services are free and they charge very little for the rest. Especially if you have a traffic heavy page with little revenue, Cloudflare is pretty much the only solution for CDN, WAF etc. All the others charge for traffic and cost a fortune.
- sph 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons