Cloudflare Outage Highlights Risks of Centralized Website Services
By
huijzer
A bagel that needed a few more minutes. And maybe a fact-check.
Summary
The article criticizes Cloudflare as a centralized service that creates a single point of failure for websites. The author describes experiencing widespread Cloudflare outages affecting many sites, including smaller ones with modest traffic. The piece argues that many website owners use Cloudflare unnecessarily due to fear of DDoS attacks, when they likely don't need such protection. The core message warns against over-reliance on centralized services that can fail and take down multiple sites simultaneously.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledThis demonstrates again a simple fact: if you put your site behind a centralized service, then this service is a single point of failure.
Most people use Cloudflare because they have been scared into the idea that you need DDoS protection.
Well, maybe you do, but probably you don't.
Even large established companies make mistakes and can go down.
At the time of writing 12:43 UTC on Tue 18 Nov, Cloudflare has taken many sites down.
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