Another Stellar Day for Our Techbro Overlords
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Cloudflare, a company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, experienced issues with its global network, the company said early Tuesday, disrupting service for many websites and apps.
The company said it believed the problems had been fully resolved around 9:30 a.m., roughly four hours after it first reported issues. It said it was continuing to monitor the situation.
The company said the cause was a file that set off “a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare’s services.” It said there was “no evidence that this was the result of an attack or caused by malicious activity.”
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The outage is a reminder that certain companies have an outsize role in making the global internet work. Last month, Amazon Web Services experienced problems with its service, disrupting a wide range of online services for hours. Days later, Azure, Microsoft’s cloud service system, also experienced an outage.
And last year, the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike experienced a bigger outage that caused a global I.T. meltdown that hit airlines, hospitals and other online services.
“We now have AWS, Azure and Cloudflare outages in the span of a month,” said David Choffnes, a professor of computer science at Northeastern University. “That’s a very large portion of the biggest cloud providers in the world.”
“It has not been the case that we have seen major outages like this in a short period of time,” he said. “Companies have had outages before, but they tend to be pretty rare. These companies are supposed to be really, really good at keeping things up.”
It’s almost as if these companies don’t give a shit about anything but serving Herr Trump, who will make sure they make all the money and get all the contracts so long as they service him.