@rolltime internet was working, it was the websites that struggled

@rolltime@freeradical.zone don't confuse the world wide web and the internet

@rolltime That's fucking crazy, I get why CDNs exist but why do so many large corpoations use them, such an odd thing.

@rolltime

.... This refers to Today, right?

@rolltime my home website when one CDN goes down: still working all fine!

@rolltime CDNs should be forbidden. If a site is slow, thats because the site has too much shit on it. throwing more hardware at it does not fix the problem, quite the contrary in fact.

@robdaemon oh this is probably what is breaking my Tidbyt

@rolltime The network is resilient (less interference by megacorps/governments). What's running on top of it, not so much.

@rolltime@freeradical.zone isps too (like what happened with rogers)

@rolltime gonna pretend I don't see my employer on there and stay in bed

@rolltime Interesting that I didn't even notice that but what was down? Cloudflare?

@rolltime
That internet is fine, it's built to be resilient. The Web, not so much.

@rolltime @Viss The internet is a resilient network. But it's hard. and this industry's usual answer to hard is.. we can do that for you! And then competition being what it is... You end up here..

@rolltime oh so it isnt just me. LOLLLLLLLL

@rolltime internet resilience and internet security and internet privacy are all a myth.

@rolltime@freeradical.zone the internet is healing

@rolltime imagine if Amazon's cdn and cloudflare went down at the same time

@rolltime one of the reasons I don't rely on Cloudflare for my instance :blobfoxgoogly:

@rolltime

"the internet is a number of resilient (but not redundant) networks"

:)

@rolltime
These websites are not the internet.
We are the internet.

@rolltime corpos are fucking up the internet

@rolltime COMPANY: We don’t want to host copies of all these JS libraries ourselves! WTF!?! Use whatever free CDN you find.
ME: Production systems will go down if these rando CDNs aren’t available for *any* reason. You OK with that?
COMPANY: 🦗 🦗🦗

@rolltime but it took the internet to get the data to generate that page.

@rolltime centralization of the internet 😔

@rolltime Well, corporate websites are not the internet… which kept working just fine. So yes, IT'S ACTUALLY a resilient network…

@jwz

@rolltime Say what you will about the laptop in a closet I'm using as a server, but when something like this happens, it just keeps chugging along.

Ignore the fact that it was down for four days because I had to buy a replacement machine.

@rolltime@freeradical.zone it’s gonna be even worse when congress passss a bill banning self hosting and demands anyone who wants to host anything run it by them and pay trillions of dollars first.

@rolltime Was, not is

@rolltime That's not the internet. That's (a certain kind of) the present web

@rolltime

Thing is, downdetector is still working fine in order for you to make this point.

Perhaps the internet is exactly as robust and resilient as it claims, but these capitalist sites with their insane requirements and user loads that *require* these massive meta-networks of dumb data delivery servers, maybe they are not so well-thought-out as the underlying infrastructure that is perfectly capable of watching them burn out regularly.

@rolltime @eurozerozero The cost of resiliency has always been anathema to the corporate bottom line.

@rolltime wow

@rolltime and nothing of value was lost.

@rolltime Outage limited to the US east coast.
Seems resilient from over here… One region of one CDN can go down without dragging other parts of the net down with it.

@rolltime
Which was it, btw?