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We use Render which apparently uses Cloudflare. It went down.

Hard to know what 3rd party services you depend on uses Cloudflare.

Luckily there is Privacy terms that usually disclose this.

Raise your hands if you found out you use cloudflare three weeks ago.

I have it pointed at my domains just for basic stuff and luckily that seems to be working at least.

I’d argue that the big 3 cloud providers have more outages than this, only cloudflare actually lets you know.

I've been operating a relatively small digital platform for 15 years. We don't use Cloudflare, for bots, we use tirreno (1), which we specifically created to filter malicious traffic.

For hosting, we use a local and sovereign EU provider.

If tomorrow Cloudflare, Amazon, and Microsoft were to somehow disappear or go permanently down, I wouldn't even notice.

1. https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno

If that would be so simple