We seriously need to differentiate servers, otherwise the decentralization is useless.
Surprisingly, lemmy.sdf.org. was up… not that SDF would use cloud flare.
Mine was. And ran better than ever because it didn’t have to handle so many updates anymore. I missed the memes though, because the images weren’t loading.
dbzer0 was not affected and even had a post about it.
sopuli.xyz was fine.
I just moved my instance off of cloudflare, you’re all welcome to make an account here!
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.
Lemmy
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
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.
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.I used observer and sorted by active users, so maybe fediverse observer doesn’t host the instance due to the NSFW? idk
Uh? What outage? When?
Cloudflare outage. A few hours ago.
Everything looked fine to me. I’m on mander.xyz
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.
Piefed was down. Or at least piefed.social.
FWIW I switched VPN egress to Singapore (I have two egress points up permanently and switch with foxyproxy) and was up again immediately.
Yeah it uses cloudflare for a number of services if I recall.
I didn’t notice anything on feddit.uk
Nor feddit.nl
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 😄
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
- piefed.social - down
- lemmy.world - down
- slrpnk.net - up
- mastodon.social - up
