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I'm on Linode.

Linode is down because Cloudflare is down.

Can't login to their control panel, etc.

You'd need to go fully independent and roll your own, with zero dependencies, to really make this work.

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Linode control panel being down doesn't mean that the servers they host are down.

For *most* web facing apps/sites, a site hosted on e.g. Linode like this, but not using Cloudflare, would be unaffected by such an outage.

I guess it depends. If you scale up and down via the API and can’t access the API .. you have a pretty good chance of a down scenario if you had a traffic spike you can’t scale for.

Yeah, they'd also be dependent on their ISP still if they're "fully independent". Good luck dealing with massive traffic spikes on a single bare-metal box and good luck maintaining a similar uptime to cloudflare's 98.84% uptime lol

Most (or at least many) colo facilities have multiple transit ISPs, some are big enough to have decent peering as well.

I'm assuming 98.84% uptime is a joke? Less than 4+ days of downtime is something I could manage from a home connection most years, if I had a static IP.

98.84? that a real number? that's pretty low

Does Linode really use Cloudflare? They were bought by Akamai earlier this year.

Feel free to try https://login.linode.com/login

Whilst the incident is happening you'll see the Cloudflare 522 page.

Interestingly enough, I'm already logged in, and the homepage as well as the rest of the Linode dashboard are operational. It seems only the login page is down.

Google's Firebase uses Fastly even after acquisition. It's possible Linode to continue using Cloudflare.

Isn't linode owned by Akamai now?

imo it's messed up that they haven't rebuilt their network infrastructure in the four months since they got acquired

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