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[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cloudflare is a standard piece of kit for any moderately popular website. It handles things like strict SSL enforcement, anti ddos (this is a big reason), and other edge networking functions that modern websites need.

[–] webpack@ani.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

well if your website is supposed to be used to check the status of other websites why make it so that if cloudflare goes down (which is when more people would use your website) your website also becomes unusable

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Cost and risk.

Edge networking services can be expensive and Cloudflare offers a free tier which is decent. Additionally, I’m sure down detector has a method of making money, but I sure don’t pay them. I can’t imagine I’m the weird one. So they are almost certainly operating on a tight budget.

It’s fresh in our minds today, but these big providers are way more reliable than not. It makes sense to use them because they are generally not down.

It just doesn’t make sense to do anything different. I doubt they change even after this outage. I certainly wouldn’t.