I mean this outage raises an important question about the future of the internet. As more AI systems, communication platforms, and critical services rely on centralized infrastructure like Cloudflare, the risks of single points of failure continue to grow. If one company’s failure can take down major parts of the web, we may need a new approach to resilience, decentralization, and redundancy. What does a more fault-tolerant internet look like in an AI-driven world??….
3dom on
Cloudflare isn’t just a backbone, it’s a protection against DDoS attacks. I’ll take an hour of outage for my business over multi-day one + huge additional bandwidth and CPU load fees from server provider, any time.
tofu_ink on
When cloud flare took our a lot of the internet last time, someone posted details about the original plan for internet specs.
The main take away was any domain names you setup should be routed through TWO separate disconnected DNS services, so when one goes down the other is still functional…. seems like a lot of people didn’t think cloud flare would down ‘again’
adilly on
Crowd Strike, Azure/MS, AWS, and cloud flare. It’s like the four horsemen of the internet apocalypse and each one has either caused or been part of multi million if not billion dollar outages. There’s little to no recourse that I know of coming from each of these other than “whoopsie!”.
The scale of the problem is immense. These companies force AI on more platforms and fire workers all the while no one is learning basic coding anymore. Adding it all up and you can see where this system comes crashing down and no one will know how to fix it or make it better.
Alexis_J_M on
Sears and AOL should have taught us that nobody is too big to fail.
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Aanar on
Just have AI recode the entire internet to fix it. What could go wrong?
va_wanderer on
A system originally designed to be robust via redundancy now has massive amounts of it’s critical systems running through singular break points.
What could *possibly* go wrong?
ya-reddit-acct on
From this point on it could only get worse: imagine front ending AWS US-EAST-1 with Cloudflare.
KofOaks on
> No, the internet is not fully decentralized, but it was designed with decentralization in mind and has become increasingly centralized over time due to large corporations and governments dominating its infrastructure and platforms.
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I mean this outage raises an important question about the future of the internet. As more AI systems, communication platforms, and critical services rely on centralized infrastructure like Cloudflare, the risks of single points of failure continue to grow. If one company’s failure can take down major parts of the web, we may need a new approach to resilience, decentralization, and redundancy. What does a more fault-tolerant internet look like in an AI-driven world??….
Cloudflare isn’t just a backbone, it’s a protection against DDoS attacks. I’ll take an hour of outage for my business over multi-day one + huge additional bandwidth and CPU load fees from server provider, any time.
When cloud flare took our a lot of the internet last time, someone posted details about the original plan for internet specs.
The main take away was any domain names you setup should be routed through TWO separate disconnected DNS services, so when one goes down the other is still functional…. seems like a lot of people didn’t think cloud flare would down ‘again’
Crowd Strike, Azure/MS, AWS, and cloud flare. It’s like the four horsemen of the internet apocalypse and each one has either caused or been part of multi million if not billion dollar outages. There’s little to no recourse that I know of coming from each of these other than “whoopsie!”.
The scale of the problem is immense. These companies force AI on more platforms and fire workers all the while no one is learning basic coding anymore. Adding it all up and you can see where this system comes crashing down and no one will know how to fix it or make it better.
Sears and AOL should have taught us that nobody is too big to fail.
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Just have AI recode the entire internet to fix it. What could go wrong?
A system originally designed to be robust via redundancy now has massive amounts of it’s critical systems running through singular break points.
What could *possibly* go wrong?
From this point on it could only get worse: imagine front ending AWS US-EAST-1 with Cloudflare.
> No, the internet is not fully decentralized, but it was designed with decentralization in mind and has become increasingly centralized over time due to large corporations and governments dominating its infrastructure and platforms.
hm….