Sunday, August 4, 2019

Cloudflare

First, the good news:
Cloudflare will no longer be hosting 8chan.

That's a wise business decision.  Considering that 8chan has been the site where it appears these white supremacists have been posting manifestos before they commit these horrible mass murders, Cloudflare needs to distance themselves from them.

Now the bad news:
Since Cloudflare will no longer be hosting 8chan, and has stated this publicly, I think we can expect massive outages tomorrow. 

Cloudflare acts much like AWS or Google Web Services (although it is completely different).  Many of the web's top sites rely on Cloudflare to operate.  About a month ago, an outage at Cloudflare impacted random areas of the web.  This included sites like Zendesk, Uber, and many others.  This was an accidental outage.  Imagine what will happen when a bunch of outraged bigots put their minds together.

I say, back up your data tonight.

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