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One of our sites uses Cloudflare and serves 400k pageviews per month and generates around $650/day in ad and affiliate revenue. If the site is not up the busine

One of our sites uses Cloudflare and serves 400k pageviews per month and generates around $650/day in ad and affiliate revenue. If the site is not up the business is not making any money. Looking at the hourly chart in Google Analytics (compared to the previous day) there isn't even a blip during this outage. So for all the advantages we get from Cloudflare (caching, WAF, security [our WP admin is secured with Cloudflare Teams], redirects, page rules, etc) I'll take these minor outages that make HN go apeshit. Of course it helped that most our traffic is from the US and this happened when it did but in the past week alone we served over 180 countries which Cloudflare helps make sure is nice and fast :D

algo_trader 4y ago
Could you possibly, kindly, mention which tools you use to track/buy/calculate conversions/revenue? Many thanks (Or DM the puppet email in my profile)
- harrydehal 4y ago
  Not OP, but my team really, really enjoys using a combination of Segment.io for event tracking and piping that data into Amplitude for data viz, funnel metrics, A/B tests, conversion, etc.
- weird-eye-issue 4y ago
  Our revenue is reported to us by our ad network and Amazon Associates. Basic events in Google Analytics let's us see various types of conversions
herpderperator 4y ago
I didn't quite understand this. It sounds like Cloudflare's outage didn't affect you depite being their customer. Why did their large outage not affect you?
- jgrahamc 4y ago
  It wasn't a global outage.
  - prophesi 4y ago
    I thought it was global? 19 data centers were taken offline which "handle a significant proportion of [Cloudflare's] global traffic".
    - ihaveajob 4y ago
      But if your clients are mostly asleep while this is happening, they might not notice.
    - jgrahamc 4y ago
      I am in Lisbon and was not having trouble because Cloudflare's Lisbon data center was not affected. But over in Madrid there was trouble. It depended where you are.
      - prophesi 4y ago
        Gotcha, so it was out internationally, but selectively.
    - mkl 4y ago
      From the article: "Depending on your location in the world you may have been unable to access websites and services that rely on Cloudflare. In other locations, Cloudflare continued to operate normally."
    - madeofpalk 4y ago
      I did not notice Cloudflare going down. Only reason I knew was because of this thread. Either it was because I was asleep, or my local PoP wasn't affected.
- uhhhhuhyes 4y ago
  Because of the time at which the outage occurred, most of this person's customers were not trying to access the site.
markdown 4y ago
Would you mind sharing which site that is?

algo_trader 4y ago

Could you possibly, kindly, mention which tools you use to track/buy/calculate conversions/revenue? Many thanks (Or DM the puppet email in my profile)

harrydehal 4y ago
Not OP, but my team really, really enjoys using a combination of Segment.io for event tracking and piping that data into Amplitude for data viz, funnel metrics, A/B tests, conversion, etc.
weird-eye-issue 4y ago
Our revenue is reported to us by our ad network and Amazon Associates. Basic events in Google Analytics let's us see various types of conversions

herpderperator 4y ago

I didn't quite understand this. It sounds like Cloudflare's outage didn't affect you depite being their customer. Why did their large outage not affect you?

jgrahamc 4y ago
It wasn't a global outage.
- prophesi 4y ago
  I thought it was global? 19 data centers were taken offline which "handle a significant proportion of [Cloudflare's] global traffic".
  - ihaveajob 4y ago
    But if your clients are mostly asleep while this is happening, they might not notice.
  - jgrahamc 4y ago
    I am in Lisbon and was not having trouble because Cloudflare's Lisbon data center was not affected. But over in Madrid there was trouble. It depended where you are.
    - prophesi 4y ago
      Gotcha, so it was out internationally, but selectively.
  - mkl 4y ago
    From the article: "Depending on your location in the world you may have been unable to access websites and services that rely on Cloudflare. In other locations, Cloudflare continued to operate normally."
  - madeofpalk 4y ago
    I did not notice Cloudflare going down. Only reason I knew was because of this thread. Either it was because I was asleep, or my local PoP wasn't affected.
uhhhhuhyes 4y ago
Because of the time at which the outage occurred, most of this person's customers were not trying to access the site.

markdown 4y ago

Would you mind sharing which site that is?