11/19/2025

Cloudflare

and why its actually stupid and dumb

So Cloudflare went down yesterday

Cloudflare handles 20% of all internet traffic, so all that traffic went down withit, and many services were unavailable. This comes after the multiple AWS outages, and all these incidents are serving to lower people's trust in centralized service providers. Even though I was in class for yesterday's Cloudflare outage, I was still somewhat affected by it. You see, all my devices have DNS handled by a pi-hole running on one of my 'puters, and that server uses Cloudflare DNS exclusively upstream; so I had no DNS for a bit. This was remedied by clicking twice on a GUI. I'm sure for others it wasn't as easy, and that IT departments across the world were flooded with requests to "just make it work."

BUT GUESS WHOSE WEBSITE WAS STILL UP?

MINE! With the exception of my host device not having internet access, this website will NEVER go down. I will never rely on Cloudflare, Google Cloud, AWS, or MS Azure for this silly little website because there's simply no need. Obviously these corpos offer a valuable service for the world's best paid nerds, but I am neither paid nor of this world, so that's irrelevant. Brorelol.gay's persistence yesterday officially makes it more reliable than Cloudflare, which will be revolutionary once I figure out an actual use for this site.

Moving forward

Jokes aside, writing this page has made me realize my own reliance on huge closed source corporate services, such as my everyday use of iOS, Windows, and Tailscale. I also rely on smaller closed source software like Discord and Logitech GHUB, both of which could mess me up for a while if they broke. Despite what I'd like to think, I have very little technical expertise. All of these as well any service I could possibly use have the potential to become unreliable, and there's very little I could do about it except flounder to replace them. I've been thinking recently about cutting to the chase and moving my desktop usage over to some Linux distro, and the only thing keeping me from doing so is Tim "epic game" Sweeney's personal refusal to allow me specifically to play Fortnite on Linux machines. I could also move over to a Headscale network over Tailscale and Piper over GHUB. Unfortunately, there's not much I can currently do to avoid using iOS or Discord.

In conclusion

selfhosting good and cool microsfot and cloudflar e and amaon baD!