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I consider Clouflare to be the least reliable cloud service provider out there. So many CDN and DNS related outages thanks to poor engineering release practices. Considering those are their bread and butter services I wouldn't ever rely on any of their other services.

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The least reliable cloud service provider … relative to what?

A comparison of historical downtime amongst DNS and CDN providers shows this to be an illogical consideration.

I’ve been using cloudflare for years at both small and very large scales.

They have had outages yes, but again, relative to the rest of the cloud providers they’re doing just fine.

Enterprise CloudFlare customer here, can't remember a single disruption or outage in the last year.

It is simply incorrect. We have most of our customers on Cloudflare and the larger customers are on enterprise deals. My only criticism to Cloudflare is simply that it is just not as stellar as some of the more expensive alternatives. It is not a high end service but still the right choice for a lot of sites.

When it happens, it breaks a lot of the internet, but "so many" is stretching it - the entire CF network has only gone down a couple of times in the time I've known about them (~6 years).

They went down at least 4 times last year.

Always noticeable as Discord will go down.

Doesn’t discord use GCP?

They extensively use Cloudflare, other than for voice channels which don't use CF's tcp/udp proxy (to minimize ping, since GCP is usually peered better globally).

Nitpick: Voice/video is run on dedicated hardware from various providers, since GCP networking costs would be obscene for that.

GCP proxied by Cloudflare, yes

Do they have more outages than AWS or GCP?

Cloudflare user for all my services here. I can't remember any downtime ever outside of the couple times where they got massive press over it (because, like, the whole internet broke)

Most ppl use CF for toy things they don't test if their infrastructure is reachable at all times, but CF fails a lot, at least twice a day.

Yeah, I admit ppl use CF for toy things, but twice a day? sause?

Do they?

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