Comment by throwaway81523
5 days ago
Now just wait til every country on earth really does replace most of its employees with ChatGPT... and then OpenAI's data center goes offline with a fiber cut or something. All work everywhere stops. Cloudflare outage is nothing compared to that.
That was this outage. ChatGPT and Claude are both behind Clouflare’s bot detection. You couldn’t log into either Web frontends.
And the error message said you were blocking them. We had support tickets coming in demanding to know why ChatGPT was being blocked.
We also couldn’t log into our supplier’s B2B system to place our customer orders.
So all the advice of “just self host” is moot when you’re in a food web.
That's why it's better to have redundancy. Hire Claude and Deepseek, too.
> goes offline with a fiber cut
If a fiber cut brings your network down then you have fundamental network design issues and need to change hiring practices.