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One of our sites uses Cloudflare and serves 400k pageviews per month and generates around $650/day in ad and affiliate revenue. If the site is not up the business is not making any money.

Looking at the hourly chart in Google Analytics (compared to the previous day) there isn't even a blip during this outage.

So for all the advantages we get from Cloudflare (caching, WAF, security [our WP admin is secured with Cloudflare Teams], redirects, page rules, etc) I'll take these minor outages that make HN go apeshit.

Of course it helped that most our traffic is from the US and this happened when it did but in the past week alone we served over 180 countries which Cloudflare helps make sure is nice and fast :D

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I didn't quite understand this. It sounds like Cloudflare's outage didn't affect you depite being their customer. Why did their large outage not affect you?

It wasn't a global outage.

I thought it was global? 19 data centers were taken offline which "handle a significant proportion of [Cloudflare's] global traffic".

But if your clients are mostly asleep while this is happening, they might not notice.

I am in Lisbon and was not having trouble because Cloudflare's Lisbon data center was not affected. But over in Madrid there was trouble. It depended where you are.

Gotcha, so it was out internationally, but selectively.

From the article: "Depending on your location in the world you may have been unable to access websites and services that rely on Cloudflare. In other locations, Cloudflare continued to operate normally."

I did not notice Cloudflare going down. Only reason I knew was because of this thread. Either it was because I was asleep, or my local PoP wasn't affected.

Because of the time at which the outage occurred, most of this person's customers were not trying to access the site.

We still get several hundred pageviews per hour during the outage. It just didn't seem to effect us much for some reason (but the reason is not that nobody was going to our site anyways)

I did get an alert from Uptime Robot but when I checked everything was fine and so I thought it was a false positive.

Could you possibly, kindly, mention which tools you use to track/buy/calculate conversions/revenue?

Many thanks

(Or DM the puppet email in my profile)

Not OP, but my team really, really enjoys using a combination of Segment.io for event tracking and piping that data into Amplitude for data viz, funnel metrics, A/B tests, conversion, etc.

Our revenue is reported to us by our ad network and Amazon Associates. Basic events in Google Analytics let's us see various types of conversions

Would you mind sharing which site that is?

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