What was that about?

[PeteXXX]

Just me or you, too? 🤔

🤷‍♂️

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Yep, me too. Naughty Cloudfare!

 

[Jenkins]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

And again.

 

[sevenfourate]

As per @Jenkins link (Which i stumbled across earlier].....its a National or indeed Worldwide issue. Not cyclist specific

 

[Psamathe]

Highlights one of the massive shortcomings in the way the internet has become structured. With a few very major players each working on lower costs=higher profits ... results in one hiccup causing massive failures. Just as recently with Amazon.

We (as a species) seem very good at creating very un-resilient systems which have no technical reasons for the fragility, just commercial.

 

[Oldhippy]

It has been happening with me too.

 

[Dogtrousers]

The great Cloudflare hiccup of '25. I was there. I was mildly inconvenienced.

 

[matticus]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o

linky no worky :-(

 

[Drago]

Also affected A.N.Other forum I frequent. I was forced to go and do something in the real world!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Highlights one of the massive shortcomings in the way the internet has become structured. With a few very major players each working on lower costs=higher profits ... results in one hiccup causing massive failures. Just as recently with Amazon.

We (as a species) seem very good at creating very un-resilient systems which have no technical reasons for the fragility, just commercial.

There is much truth in what you say. I used to work in disaster recovery testing for a while in the 90s. We took it all very seriously. I think there's less rigour about it these days. But it's a lot cheaper.

 

[Andy in Germany]

It made it very clear who was responsible: "Cloudflare, London."

 

[Andy in Germany]

Also affected A.N.Other forum I frequent. I was forced to go and do something in the real world!

Counselling is available.

Online.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Highlights one of the massive shortcomings in the way the internet has become structured. With a few very major players each working on lower costs=higher profits ... results in one hiccup causing massive failures. Just as recently with Amazon.

We (as a species) seem very good at creating very un-resilient systems which have no technical reasons for the fragility, just commercial.

Wasn't the whole point of the internet supposed to be lots of duplicated connections so it would be more resilient?

 

[presta]

Highlights one of the massive shortcomings in the way the internet has become structured. With a few very major players each working on lower costs=higher profits ... results in one hiccup causing massive failures. Just as recently with Amazon.

We (as a species) seem very good at creating very un-resilient systems which have no technical reasons for the fragility, just commercial.

There's a direct trade-off between resilience and efficiency, and with the current obsession with growth and productivity, the latter always wins. It costs money to build redundancy into a system, and if you're lucky, you never get that money back again.