AWS, Microsoft Azure, and CloudFlare – services run by gigantic corporations with endless supply of money and talent – all experience catastrophic, global failures that take innumerable other services down with them within 30 days.

Meanwhile Wikipedia just keeps chugging along, globally stable and reliable as always.

And yes, Wikimedia Foundation runs a pretty complex infrastructure:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure

#SysAdmin #CloudFlare #AWS #Azure #Wikipedia

> In this specific instance, the Bot Management system has a limit on the number of machine learning features that can be used at runtime.
> (…)
> When the bad file with more than 200 features was propagated to our servers, this limit was hit — resulting in the system panicking.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

So it's "AI" when it's good for business, "machine learning" when it's bad for business, gotcha! 🤡

#CloudFlare

> In this specific instance, the Bot Management system has a limit on the number of machine learning features that can be used at runtime.
> (…)
> When the bad file with more than 200 features was propagated to our servers, this limit was hit — resulting in the system panicking.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

So it's "AI" when it's good for business, "machine learning" when it's bad for business, gotcha! 🤡

#CloudFlare

AWS, Microsoft Azure, and CloudFlare – services run by gigantic corporations with endless supply of money and talent – all experience catastrophic, global failures that take innumerable other services down with them within 30 days.

Meanwhile Wikipedia just keeps chugging along, globally stable and reliable as always.

And yes, Wikimedia Foundation runs a pretty complex infrastructure:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure

#SysAdmin #CloudFlare #AWS #Azure #Wikipedia

This is, of course, hilarious. If a single traffic spike can bring CloudFlare down for hours, and with it innumerable websites and services, what exactly is the point of CloudFlare?

Yes, I understand that a way smaller traffic spike would probably bring any individual website down if they were all hosted separately. Sure.

But bringing them *all* down at the same time would be impossible. That's resilience through independence.

#CloudFlare is a single point of failure, and it keeps failing.

This is, of course, hilarious. If a single traffic spike can bring CloudFlare down for hours, and with it innumerable websites and services, what exactly is the point of CloudFlare?

Yes, I understand that a way smaller traffic spike would probably bring any individual website down if they were all hosted separately. Sure.

But bringing them *all* down at the same time would be impossible. That's resilience through independence.

#CloudFlare is a single point of failure, and it keeps failing.

Fedi: "Haha! #Cloudflare down and Xitter goes down, this could never happen to us here ☺️☺️"

Hetzner:

Fedi: "Haha! #Cloudflare down and Xitter goes down, this could never happen to us here ☺️☺️"

Hetzner:

Ah well, look at it this way!

With #CloudFlare down and taking #ChatGPT with it, kids now need to do their own homework

Maybe this outage is for the best

You can't be DDoSed if your site is down!

#CloudFlare

Ah well, look at it this way!

With #CloudFlare down and taking #ChatGPT with it, kids now need to do their own homework

Maybe this outage is for the best

Btw, if your site uses #Cloudflare DNS and is now down

Just disable their DNS proxy, clear cache and p00f

Btw, if your site uses #Cloudflare DNS and is now down

Just disable their DNS proxy, clear cache and p00f