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Someone in another post showed a decent site that shows cloudflare dependency, so I threw the top 35 actives from observer into it. It's honestly not as bad as I expected it would be, but it is concerning.
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lemmy.world(Active Users: 14512): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
sh.itjust.works(Active Users: 2509): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
lemmy.ml(Active Users: 2087): Cloudflare? No
lemmy.zip(Active Users: 1704): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
lemmy.dbzer0.com(Active Users: 1444): Cloudflare? No
lemmy.ca(Active Users: 1381): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
lemmygrad.ml(Active Users: 972): Cloudflare? No
lemmy.blahaj.zone(Active Users: 956): Cloudflare? No
programming.dev(Active Users: 929): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
discuss.tchncs.de(Active Users: 778): Cloudflare? No
sopuli.xyz(Active Users: 596): Cloudflare? No
slrpnk.net(Active Users: 371): Cloudflare? No
infosec.pub(Active Users: 331): Cloudflare? No
lemmy.today(Active Users: 314): Cloudflare? No
midwest.social(Active Users: 307): Cloudflare? No
reddthat.com(Active Users: 292): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
feddit.nl(Active Users: 290): Cloudflare? No
pawb.social(Active Users: 243): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
forum.guncadindex.com(Active Users: 234): Cloudflare? No
mander.xyz(Active Users: 194): Cloudflare? No
lemmings.world(Active Users: 177): Cloudflare? No
ani.social(Active Users: 173): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
feddit.it(Active Users: 158): Cloudflare? No
startrek.website(Active Users: 156): Cloudflare? No
feddit.dk(Active Users: 151): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,cname)
leminal.space(Active Users: 126): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
ttrpg.network(Active Users: 125): Cloudflare? No
szmer.info(Active Users: 116): Cloudflare? No
lemmy.eco.br(Active Users: 99): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
lemy.lol(Active Users: 97): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,cname)
awful.systems(Active Users: 90): Cloudflare? No
I think you missed the second biggest instance (at least it was a while back.)
lemmynsfw.com is using Cloudflare DNS, CDN/Proxy
Edit:
Also noticed:
checkforcloudflare.selesti.com is using Cloudflare DNS, CDN/Proxy.
Not the goonercave too, Say it ain't so.
I used observer and sorted by active users, so maybe fediverse observer doesn't host the instance due to the NSFW? idk
It looks like that source also didn't list hexbear.net, which seems to be around the 5th or 6th largest Lemmy instance, at 1.57k monthly active users. Results from the site you linked (thanks, by the way) say that they use Cloudflare for DNS but not for CDN/Proxy/SSL.
Hexbear and lemmynsfw aren't listed on fedidb either, which leads me to believe that they must block whatever discovery mechanism is being used by these fedi stats sites.
Yea that would make sense, if that endpoint is blocked then it wouldn't be added.
Uh? What outage? When?
Cloudflare outage. A few hours ago.
dbzer0 was not affected and even had a post about it.
I just moved my instance off of cloudflare, you’re all welcome to make an account here!
Everything looked fine to me. I'm on mander.xyz
I didn't notice anything on feddit.uk
Nor feddit.nl
Piefed was down. Or at least piefed.social.
Yeah it uses cloudflare for a number of services if I recall.
FWIW I switched VPN egress to Singapore (I have two egress points up permanently and switch with foxyproxy) and was up again immediately.
I mean, it's easy to check whether a given instance is using CloudFlare.
$ host lemmy.world|head -n1
lemmy.world has address 104.26.9.209
$ whois 104.26.9.209|grep ^NetName
NetName: CLOUDFLARENET
$
You can browse anonymously on any instance that permits doing so, so if you just want to browse during an outage, you can do that anywhere.
IMHO, having an account on a second Threadiverse instance isn't necessarily a terrible idea, not just because of CloudFlare outages, but because instances do have outages for various reasons. I have an account on olio.cafe (PieFed, not on CloudFlare) and on lemmy.today (Lemmy, not on CloudFlare) because I wanted to try out PieFed, and I have fallen back to that to post before if lemmy.today has issues.
That being said, I didn't intentionally try to avoid CloudFlare. I mean, they're used by a lot of major sites, and I don't expect them to have a lot of downtime. I mean, every Threadiverse instance has had downtime for some reason or another. I've had Internet outages, as well as electricity outages. Not all that common or usually an extended thing, but they happen.
I'm pretty sure fedia.io was up the whole time
When was the cloudflare outage? I saw the memes about it on Fedia, but I have no clue if it was ongoing at the time.
Early this morning, from 6 am EST, I think
Thank you! I didn’t get to the web till sometime after 7 EST but it fedia was fine then.
This other post has some discussion: https://lemmy.ca/post/55386786
While the downtime was most active, most of the top instances were down. Lemmy.ml, feddit.org, discuss.tchncs.de and behaw.org were all up. You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to browse things and the ones offline all show a “content error” in lemmyverse.
Here is a screenshot that @straycatstrut@discuss.tchncs.de took during the outage
I just came home and learned about the outage. Still can't get the smirk of superiority out of my face from when I noticed my people were still able to shitpost in my absence.
I appreciate that different teams are doing different things, I'll have to remember to drop by during the next cloudflare outage 😄
lemmus.org was online the entire time.
discuss.tchncs.de was fine.
Everything was down for me. Lemmy.ca using Voyager.
We rely on Cloudflare for our instances, so unfortunately lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, and pixelfed.ca were all down during the outage
If anyone is curious, we've discussed why we use Cloudflare here: https://lemmy.ca/post/40252238/15009722
sopuli.xyz and fedia.io both stayed up for me
sopuli.xyz was fine.
Slrpnk worked, I had to use that during the outage.
While you were away I was browsing cloudflare memes
Say it with me again: your server does not need middlemen that can break your stuff whenever they feel like it.
I self host a wiki and use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy to protect my IP. If you know of a similarly easy to use solution I'd love to hear it.
So, there are a couple of reasons to use CloudFlare, but I suspect that the reason that a lot of people are doing so is to deal with DDoSes, which are hard to deal with otherwise.
Like, my home instance, lemmy.today, doesn't use CloudFlare, so it isn't affected by a CloudFlare outage. But...it was also knocked offline for a few days about a month back by a DDoS.
A lot of major sites do depend on CloudFlare, so they probably aren't going to have a horrendous amount of downtime
like, any issue that comes up is probably gonna have a lot of engineers banging on it pretty quickly.
sopuli.xyz didn't have any issues. At least I could access it at any time, I don't know if there is any lag in federation due to unavailability of other instances.
Another important consideration is that Cloudflare outage might have been regional. Same content could be available in one region but not in another. On the Cloudflare status page they mention issues with London specifically.
Startrek.website :)
Most.
Then tell me which one. Because all of mine was offline.
Mine (feddit.org) was not.
Yep❤️
- piefed.social - down
- lemmy.world - down
- slrpnk.net - up
- mastodon.social - up
sh.itjust.works was down during it as well.
Not Lemmy, but piefed.social was offline due to Cloudflare.
My private archiving instance. But assuming there's still no users and federtion was broken, onlineity doesn't really matter.
Surprisingly, lemmy.sdf.org. was up… not that SDF would use cloud flare.