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Re:What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage by jeremyjh on Friday October 08, 2021 @11:48AM (#28800562)
It was not offline. It was pretty slow - some requests failed entirely - but only for authenticated users which suggests the problem was server/database capacity as the unauthenticated pages served from cache were still very fast.
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Re:What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage by jlgaddis on Friday October 08, 2021 @12:31PM (#28801147)
> ... the unauthenticated pages served from cache were still very fast.

Wouldn't those have been coming from Cloudflare, though?

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Re:What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage by toomuchtodo on Friday October 08, 2021 @12:53PM (#28801321)
Hacker News has not used Cloudflare for some time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18496344

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