Comment by jsheard
4 hours ago
They don't name names but it's probably due to the ongoing Cloudflare explosion. I know the DigitalOcean Spaces CDN is just Cloudflare under the hood.
4 hours ago
They don't name names but it's probably due to the ongoing Cloudflare explosion. I know the DigitalOcean Spaces CDN is just Cloudflare under the hood.
Just spaces CDN, not spaces - you'd think they'd just turn the CDN off for a bit.
You can't just "turn off CDN" on the modern internet. You'd instantly DDOS your customers' origins. They're not provisioned to handle it, and even if they were the size of the pipe going to them isn't. The modern internet is built around the expectation that everything is distributed via CDN. Some more "traditional" websites would probably be fine.
Might be just me, but I can think of many origins under my control which could live without a (non-functional) CDN for a while.
CDN is great for peak-load, latency reductions, and cost - but not all sites depend on it for scale 24/7
If you are DO you could, you just decided not to bother. They control the origins it's spaces (s3), so they could absolutely spin up further gateways or a cache layer and then turn the CDN off.
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nit: that's more DoS (from a handful of DO LBs) than DDoS.