Reminds me of the Crowdstrike incident last year.

    • Björn@swg-empire.de
      5·
      7 days ago

      Most Lemmy images stopped working. And maybe what my server is showing me in terms of posts is just what it still has stored.

      Edit: My server is actually much more responsive with most of the big Lemmy instances being down. I really hope 1.0 brings great improvements.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
    7·
    7 days ago

    i’m usually on frontends, alternatives and self-hosted services. i’m barely seeing any of those outages.

    feeling cool rn ngl 😎

  • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
    6·
    7 days ago

    It’s so funny :P just months ago one of my most used forums adopted cloudflare and many asked “Are you sure?”. Well…

  • yxp@lemmy.radioEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    Damn, I really shouldn’t have trusted cloudflare tunnel. All my selfhosted servers are inaccessible… It’s running behind traefik so no ports are open.

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
      8·
      7 days ago

      VPS+VPN (WireGuard for me), with Tailscale as an emergency alternative, has worked very well for me. Knock on wood the only outages have been my own fault.

      • yxp@lemmy.radioEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        Do you have VPS recommendations? I searched for a bit on Lemmy and found out Vultr might not be a good option (they sell your data).

        • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
          2·
          7 days ago

          Sadly not really. I use the free tier Oracle, which honestly has worked very well, but I’m not going to recommend using Oracle aside to say that it functionally works for me.

          If I were to switch I would probably go to racknerd.

      • utopiah@lemmy.ml
        1·
        7 days ago

        I don’t know how many 9s I do … but I don’t care. We should not think of metrics of uptime or scalability like BigTech, we’re not them. We’re not “selling” the same “product”. To me it’s about agency, empowerment, creativity, privacy, not uptime.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    7 days ago

    Oh man, these global outages are really getting out of hand. A few days after the recent AWS and Azure outages, I suddenly noticed that I couldn’t reach certain webpages anymore. And I genuinely didn’t even bother trying to debug, because I just assumed that it’s another global outage.

    In the evening, I did look into it and noticed that my router was at fault (presumably DNS got bugged by a recent update). That was just wild to me, that I genuinely deemed it more likely that several major webpages went offline together than that my home setup is fucky.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        I mean, sure, I do understand what’s happening on a logical level. I’m just so baffled, because this whole internet thingamabob was architected by the military.
        It was intentionally built, so that parts of it could fail without disrupting the rest. When a corporation fucks up, it was supposed to take down the servers of that corporation, not also a good chunk of the rest.

        But unfortunately, this internet thingamabob is merely the closest approximation we have for the “perfect market” that economics theory calls for, so it still doesn’t actually self-regulate like that whole theory would love to believe.
        In fact, it is so much worse, because now monopolization happens across the whole planet. Particularly also because we don’t have a functioning “world government” that could enforce competition at that level via laws.

        So, the network leads to companies monopolizing on top of it and then monopolies necessitate that the respective companies do as poor of a job as possible, because this reduces costs and increases profits. As a result, major parts of this military-grade internet now falter every few weeks.

        • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          7 days ago

          Yep. The resilient system got corrupted by capitalism, which is an inherently monopolizing centralizing destabilizing enshittifying exploitation algorithm.