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Surplus load from Meta users flocking to other platforms

Surely the repeated logins can't be helping the situation. I suppose it is entirely auth related across all Meta products. The repeated strain could pose a cold start problem for example.

bandwidthon Blocking Kiwifarms

The other agenda is also pleasing shareholders and ensuring PR / damage control is mitigated at all costs.

Their stock price has been falling since Thursday after all.

bandwidthon EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

Okay so all we need now is a few IoT toasters to send 25G of DDoS traffic right?

bandwidthon Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

The VP of Rogers admits they have yet to identify the root cause:

https://twitter.com/PnPCBC/status/1545512971878662145

bandwidthon Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022

If you're okay with load balancing DNS queries across multiple providers you could do 2x Cloudflare primary NS, 2x GCP for example where each provider is in sync with each other.

If not, a manual swap at the registrar level would be good enough.

I should also mention this approach sort of breaks with Cloudflare's proxied records which dynamically assign anycast IPs for records placed on their CDN. So if using this approach the failover NS provider would probably need to also use a different CDN, preferably one that just gives you a CNAME.

bandwidthon User reports indicate problems at Discord

Could be a GCP outage but not widespread enough for them to report it.

Perhaps API gateway is facing issues.