Cloudflare hiccup nudges Stack Overflow and others offline

Large chunks of the intertubes, including popular programmers' hangout Stack Overflow, were blanked from view earlier this afternoon after a hiccup at cloud hosting and DDoS mitigation outfit Cloudflare. The outage, which lasted for about quarter of an hour, sent surfers' browsers fruitlessly spinning into the abyss following …

[Anonymous Coward]

Is there something going on ?

Mumsnet was down until midday today.

Apparently ....

[Martin-73]

Re: Is there something going on ?

Mumsnet going down? Ooerr mrs

[Zippy's Sausage Factory]

Shame StackOverflow came back up

Some of the nastiest, most spiteful trolls I've ever met tend to be community moderators on that particular cesspit.

[dotdavid]

Re: Shame StackOverflow came back up

Huh. I find it quite useful. At least it's a great deal better than expert sexchange ever was! :-)

[richardcox13]

Re: Shame StackOverflow came back up

> most spiteful trolls

You really don't get out much do you.

[Message From A Self-Destructing Turnip]

Something's wrong with the picture!

Tesselated white noise? It's more serious than we thought, the heat death is upon us! We're doomed!

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Re: Something's wrong with the picture!

I think you're wrong. It's a brilliantly apt photo to go with the article once you realise that it's a random dot stereogram and can cross your eyes appropriately. It may take a while to get the focus just right, but it's definitely worth it.

[Charlie Clark]

Cloudflare is really well

I've not used it yet myself but Cloudflare looks pretty nice. Not surprising to see it nearly trebling in size* in the last year

* in terms of the number of the Top 500,000 websites according to Alexa.

[Anonymous Coward]

20 minutes?

That's not bad. Staples was down for at least a whole day, a week or two ago. That's gotta hurt, financially.

[Anonymous Coward]

today? ha, yesterday

Yesterday, every link I clicked on (to view the article) return a 'cloudflare is broken' or somesuch error.

Of course, they aren't the only ones. Imperva has barfed several times in the last two months.

[Doctor Syntax]

Again?

The same thing happened the other week, eventually falling through to a Cloudflare error page.

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously? People need to get a proper CDN

We as dev's hate this kind of mammoth CDN's taking over, people need to switch to private CDN's like https://www.section.io/

[Vic]

Re: Seriously? People need to get a proper CDN

people need to switch

First post, promoting a commercial venture...

It's always nice if people voluntarily disclose their interests.

Vic.

[A Nonny Moose]

Can't say I noticed

Must have been during the rare 15 minutes that I was actually doing some work