Something I always wondered - do you use Cloudflare simply for the CDN in respects to photos, or does 4chan also frequently become the target of DDoS and other external attacks?
We use CloudFlare for everything -- CDN, DDoS mitigation, Railgun (see below), et cetera. They serve ~1.5 petabytes of bandwidth on our behalf every month and proxy billions upon billions of requests. I'm a huge fan of the product and team, despite hiccups like this one.
Edit -- I am officially faster than carrier pigeon:
me: was i the first human to notify you guys? |
me: i caught it within the first 30-60 seconds i think |
me: because i have no life and never sleep |
CloudFlare Ops pal: yeah. you did.
If anyone wants to hire me to check their site instead of Pingdom, feel free to ping me!
It's expected that eventually things will go down, I've never once found a piece of software, server, person or traffic light which has performed at 100% for their entire lifetime, the best thing we can take from this however is response times.
Barely an hour from outage to being live again - I barely had time to fire an email to my colleagues and update our Twitter before it came back online - however, what's worrying here is that there was no fallback in place whatsoever, we will be hearing from the Cloudflare team soon hopefully to let us know what went wrong, but if they are half the company they purport to be, they will learn a lot from whatever went wrong today.
Something I always wondered - do you use Cloudflare simply for the CDN in respects to photos, or does 4chan also frequently become the target of DDoS and other external attacks?