Cloudflare outage highlights sloppy data center practices; running a mail server at home discussed; Android storage disaster patched but data loss still possible; discussion on package managers on Windows and Toshiba hard drives.
Cloudflare's outage highlights the importance of proper data center practices and the need for better redundancy and distribution.
Running a mail server at home is not recommended due to various challenges and potential security risks.
Deep dives
Cloudflare's control plane and analytics services experience outage
Cloudflare experienced an outage in their control plane and analytics services, lasting over a day and a half. The incident impacted the customer-facing interface and APIs for their services.
Unplanned maintenance event at essential data centers affects power supply
During the outage, Cloudflare's data center in Hillsborough, Oregon experienced an unplanned maintenance event by the utility company, which led to a power feed shutdown. The data center relied on generators, but failed to inform Cloudflare about the situation.
Challenges with battery backups and breaker failure
The battery backups at Cloudflare's data center were unable to bridge the gap between generator startup and power supply, as they started failing after just four minutes. Additionally, a breaker failure further complicated the situation.
Lessons learned and transparency from Cloudflare
Cloudflare took ownership of the incident and acknowledged the need for better redundancy and distribution across their high-availability sites. They were transparent in sharing a detailed timeline of the outage and communicating the improvements they plan to make.
A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run a mail server at home. Plus followup on the Android multi-user bug, package managers on Windows, and Toshiba hard drives.
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