It's buck-passing; the responsibility to keep Cloudflare services available to users lies with Cloudflare, not Flexential. A well-designed distributed system i

It's buck-passing; the responsibility to keep Cloudflare services available to users lies with Cloudflare, not Flexential. A well-designed distributed system is able to withstand an unplanned DC failure without the user noticing. They can certainly note that Flexential's failure was a causal factor in their outage, but if they do, they're also admitting to inadequate engineering practices.