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I consider Clouflare to be the least reliable cloud service provider out there. So many CDN and DNS related outages thanks to poor engineering release practices
by rsmets 5y ago
I consider Clouflare to be the least reliable cloud service provider out there. So many CDN and DNS related outages thanks to poor engineering release practices. Considering those are their bread and butter services I wouldn't ever rely on any of their other services.
- qaq 5y agoDo they have more outages than AWS or GCP?
- ehPReth 5y agoDo they?
- gfosco 5y agoEnterprise CloudFlare customer here, can't remember a single disruption or outage in the last year.
- AtNightWeCode 5y agoIt is simply incorrect. We have most of our customers on Cloudflare and the larger customers are on enterprise deals. My only criticism to Cloudflare is simply that it is just not as stellar as some of the more expensive alternatives. It is not a high end service but still the right choice for a lot of sites.
- judge2020 5y agoWhen it happens, it breaks a lot of the internet, but "so many" is stretching it - the entire CF network has only gone down a couple of times in the time I've known about them (~6 years).
- hunterb123 5y agoThey went down at least 4 times last year. Always noticeable as Discord will go down.
- ranman 5y agoDoesn’t discord use GCP?
- judge2020 5y agoThey extensively use Cloudflare, other than for voice channels which don't use CF's tcp/udp proxy (to minimize ping, since GCP is usually peered better globally).
- notamy 5y agoNitpick: Voice/video is run on dedicated hardware from various providers, since GCP networking costs would be obscene for that.
- Jamie9912 5y agoGCP proxied by Cloudflare, yes
- ranman 5y agoThe least reliable cloud service provider … relative to what? A comparison of historical downtime amongst DNS and CDN providers shows this to be an illogical consideration. I’ve been using cloudflare for years at both small and very large scales. They have had outages yes, but again, relative to the rest of the cloud providers they’re doing just fine.
- scrollaway 5y agoCloudflare user for all my services here. I can't remember any downtime ever outside of the couple times where they got massive press over it (because, like, the whole internet broke)
- SadWebDeveloper 5y agoMost ppl use CF for toy things they don't test if their infrastructure is reachable at all times, but CF fails a lot, at least twice a day.
- mayli 5y agoYeah, I admit ppl use CF for toy things, but twice a day? sause?