A global outage like this is really quite terrible.
I saw all kinds of complaints from friends in many WeChat groups. Not only were some major websites inaccessible, but many people’s own websites and scripts also stopped working. The actual losses are hard to estimate.
Of course, occasional issues are unavoidable, but a failure with such a massive impact really shouldn’t happen to a company of this scale. And taking more than six hours to investigate and fix the problem was indeed rather inefficient.
Yeah, it was pretty out of hand. It sounded like they were doing some routine maintenance and then things just kind of went sideways on them. It's crazy just how much relies on them working right. I work in public education and I would guess half our services that we don't host locally were inaccessible.
Some services, such as login verification, are deployed on Cloudflare.
Then there are other websites that aren’t hosted on Cloudflare but rely on those services, so they also became unusable — like ChatGPT.
So the impact was really huge.
Ah yes, I can only imagine. I actually had vendors sending emails out touting that they don't use Cloudflare so they stayed stable all morning. Not a bad marketing opportunity for them!
Haha, just like my cutehive site —
there’s absolutely no need to use Cloudflare. 😀