Today's Outage Post Mortem
March 03, 2013 1:47 PM
This morning at 09:47 UTC CloudFlare effectively dropped off the Internet. The outage affected all of CloudFlare's services including DNS and any services that rely on our web proxy....
Syrian Internet access reestablished starting 1432 UTC
December 01, 2012 3:35 PM
Syria has reestablished partial connectivity to the Internet. The following map of BGP connectivity shows Syria's 29386 network connected to multiple networks outside Syria....
How Syria Turned Off the Internet
November 29, 2012 8:13 PM
Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1028 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We've spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened. ...
Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
November 06, 2012 9:09 AM
Today, Google's services experienced a limited outage for about 27 minutes over some portions of the Internet. The reason this happened dives into the deep, dark corners of networking. ...
Thoughts on the AWS outage: making the cloud more resilient to failure
June 30, 2012 7:56 PM
A huge storm rolled across the eastern United States last night, topping trees and knocking out power. Amazon Web Services (AWS) had one of their primary data centers in Virginia lose power. ...