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Ask HN: Reasonable ways to avoid single points of failure in web services?

Posted by nnyms1 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:25AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I previously commented [1] that I couldn't log into any of the 5 monitoring services I have setup, due to the current Cloudflare outage.Now in principle, even with this kind of outage, it should be possible to log into your domain registrar, reset your nameservers and add some DNS records to get atleast some parts of your infra back online by bypassing CF.Guess what? Not only can't I log into...

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Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:02AM (#45964199)
I got several emails from some uptime monitors I setup due to failing checks on my website and funnily enough I cannot log into any of them.

BetterStack, InStatus and HetrixTools seemingly all use Cloudflare on their dashboards, which means I can't login but I keep getting "your website/API is down" emails.

Update: I also can't login to UptimeRobot and Pulsetic. Now, I am getting seriously concerned about the sheer degree of centralization we have for CDNs/login turnstiles on Cloudflare.

Re:Your AI meeting notes are ready on Friday May 02, 2025 @07:15AM (#43868301)
https://archive.ph/k374M
Re:Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for... on Friday May 31, 2024 @09:39AM (#40534996)
A similar app that I found recently (as they were nominated for an Apple Design Award) that does this is Sunlitt [0].

Very polished and generally well designed.

[0]: https://www.sunlitt.app

Re:Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit on Sunday April 21, 2024 @05:52AM (#40104402)
This looks _very_ similar to TFL Go [0], the equivalent app for London. That's probably a good thing, as I really like TFL Go due to its focus on showing transit information as opposed to Google/Apple Maps where that is just a layer on top of shops, restaurants, hotels, etc.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tfl-go-live-tube-bus-rail/id14...

Re:Ask HN: Is there someone responsible for Gmail at Google? Correct p... on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:39AM (#38484930)
I have a Gmail account that was created by my parents several years ago. It had a somewhat unprofessional name so I ended up creating a new account before I went to university, which eventually became my main account.

However, Google won't let me log into the old account without veryfing access to my old phone number, which I no longer have since I moved to different country for uni.

The worst part is that I do know the correct password for my old account (it has been stored in my password manager for years) and I also have access to the recovery email set for that account.

This is an account with years of emails exchanged with my parents that I would love to archive, but I can't and I find that to be highly dissapointing.