Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks

Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by akhatri_aus on Saturday June 13, 2015 @03:05PM (#9712194)

Your Johannesburg PoP is always crashing and gives lots of error messages. Very noticeable every few days with Reddit and HN [clearly shows Johannesburg as the PoP on the error message].

That being said the speed boost is very obvious :)

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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by kukkukb on Sunday June 14, 2015 @01:46AM (#9713853)

We experience the same kind of thing to assembla.com. It often times out. Quite frustrating when in the middle of development.

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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by jgrahamc on Saturday June 13, 2015 @03:35PM (#9712309)

What sort of error messages are you seeing?

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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by akhatri_aus on Saturday June 13, 2015 @03:45PM (#9712346)

I would have to screenshot it to you when it shows up next and email/tweet it to you. Something along the lines of overloaded, took too long to respond and then the Cloudflare location shows up as Johannesburg.

When it's with HN it shows something like the twitter feed of @HNStatus pointing out the CloudFlare server as Johannesburg with a request id (I think).

When it's with reddit it shows the reddit mascot crushed up with his orange beady eyes over a pile of orange stuff. Scary stuff.

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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by nsomaru on Saturday June 13, 2015 @05:46PM (#9712799)

I can confirm this; I'm in Durban, South Africa. It says something about a gateway timeout and pops the HN error page with the twitter feed.

Next time it happens, will screenshot and send to cloudflare.

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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by mappu on Sunday June 14, 2015 @01:52AM (#9713867)

Lacking any further context i'm almost certain this isn't an issue with cloudflare, instead with the upstream web server.

I saw a cloudflare gateway timeout on HN within the last hour, and the twitter feed had a recent post excusing some technical issue.

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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by akhatri_aus on Sunday June 14, 2015 @02:04AM (#9713893)

These don't have the twitter feed excusing the issue, the last tweet was a days prior when it happened last. It's as if they only affect African users, the Johannesburg PoP is also used by Kenyan users.

At first, I wondered why the HN Feed never explained the downtime. Then it made sense, it must be cloudflare.

Given that CloudFlare is everywhere & on everyone's websites, it's a pain when it behaves this way affecting users all over a continent.

Uptime websites also report the site as up.

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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by jgrahamc on Saturday June 13, 2015 @03:47PM (#9712353)

Feel free to email jgc @ cloudflare DOT com.

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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by rasz_pl on Sunday June 14, 2015 @07:24AM (#9714502)

Does your question mean you turned off logging on the servers?

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