I've noticed that every site and service hosted by Cloudflare is down, yet Cloudflare.com itself seems to be functioning just fine. How is it possible for their own website to remain online during this outage? Also, what's the deal with their "100% Uptime SLA Guarantee"?
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The reason Cloudflare.com is up while their hosted services are down likely has to do with their infrastructure. They have systems in place to avoid a single point of failure, which means the status page is probably hosted separately on robust infrastructure, allowing it to stay online during widespread issues. Plus, their 100% uptime guarantee means you might get compensation if they fail, but it doesn’t mean outages can’t happen at all!
Exactly! It's all about how a guarantee works; it's there for accountability.