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A single Cloudflare config error took down nearly 20% of the entire internet.

Brandon Bartlett

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A single Cloudflare config error took down nearly 20% of the entire internet.
A bloated bot-detection file—filled with duplicates—crashed servers worldwide, triggering mass HTTP failures and mimicking a full-scale DDoS attack.

This outage disrupted:
• Thousands of websites
• CDNs & security platforms
• Email spam filters
• Major online services relying on Cloudflare’s backbone

It took hours of bypasses and server resets to stabilise the web.

The lesson:
Our online world is dangerously dependent on a few centralized giants:
Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud.
One error → global cascade.

Meanwhile…

Bitcoin didn’t flinch.
Its decentralized network—thousands of independent nodes worldwide—has no single point of failure.
If one part goes down, the network keeps running.
That’s crypto resilience.

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