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Comment by herpderperator | Hacker News Reader

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?

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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.

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.

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