Is the site only partially cached in CloudFlare or something? Seems like with your "Always Online" feature, a dead server should trigger CloudFlare's "Always Online" feature and show a cached version for all the pages.
Re:Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays
by damoncloudflare on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @08:11PM
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We do not cache the entire site with Always Online. The Always Online feature will display a limited cache of the site's content.
Isn't this exactly what "always online" it supposed to prevent?
Re:Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays
by justinavery on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @09:48PM
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It worked fine for me until I tried to post a comment, then I saw the caching online/offline issues from cloudflare.
Bottom line is that the site is on CloudFlare, and during heavy load (probably from Hacker News) the site did go down or slowed a lot. Unfortunately, it's the real web server that died or went very slow and not anything in CloudFlare.
The server appears to still be having problems because if I browse to other pages on the site (e.g. http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/sysadmin-calendar/) you'll see that CloudFlare's "Always Online" is enabled and showing a cached version of the page. Here's a picture of what that looks like: http://i.imgur.com/QIeQF.png