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I would have to screenshot it to you when it shows up next and email/tweet it to you. Something along the lines of overloaded, took too long to respond and then
by akhatri_aus 11y ago
I would have to screenshot it to you when it shows up next and email/tweet it to you. Something along the lines of overloaded, took too long to respond and then the Cloudflare location shows up as Johannesburg.
When it's with HN it shows something like the twitter feed of @HNStatus pointing out the CloudFlare server as Johannesburg with a request id (I think).
When it's with reddit it shows the reddit mascot crushed up with his orange beady eyes over a pile of orange stuff. Scary stuff.
- jgrahamc 11y agoFeel free to email jgc @ cloudflare DOT com.
- nsomaru 11y agoI can confirm this; I'm in Durban, South Africa. It says something about a gateway timeout and pops the HN error page with the twitter feed. Next time it happens, will screenshot and send to cloudflare.
- mappu 11y agoLacking any further context i'm almost certain this isn't an issue with cloudflare, instead with the upstream web server. I saw a cloudflare gateway timeout on HN within the last hour, and the twitter feed had a recent post excusing some technical issue.
- akhatri_aus 11y agoThese don't have the twitter feed excusing the issue, the last tweet was a days prior when it happened last. It's as if they only affect African users, the Johannesburg PoP is also used by Kenyan users. At first, I wondered why the HN Feed never explained the downtime. Then it made sense, it must be cloudflare. Given that CloudFlare is everywhere & on everyone's websites, it's a pain when it behaves this way affecting users all over a continent. Uptime websites also report the site as up.