Cloudflare acting up, not sure why, stopping some people from accessing the FTX website.
We're reaching out to them and working on hacking around it.
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Don't use cloudflare, its a liability ... its easier to setup geo-dns ... and since you can afford it, setup your own anycast network.
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What about all the good things cloudflare offers like DDos protection, edge caching etc.?
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Thats what an anycast network does. Even Geodns accomplishes that for you ... you just need your own servers in 12 locations or so.
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Building startups at speed does not like the sound of "you just need your own servers in 12 locations or so." when you can use a great service like . IMO, it's likely a config issue by FTX. Otherwise there would be much more noise on Twitter right now?
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still looking into it, best guess is that it's on Cloudflare's side but only if you have certain settings turned on
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Did you get to the bottom of it in the end? I've used cloudflare for years now, so would be good to hear what happened in the end 😁🤟
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yup, will write up something on it in a few days, but basically there was a bug in Cloudflare if you had a specific set of parameters that lead to tons of rejects