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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Some possibilities:

Some fool thinks it's a good idea to DDoS Reddit today to make a point.
Some Reddit admin thinks it's a good idea to take it offline deliberately to make a point.
The general public are hugging it to death out of curiosity about the protest.
Unrelated outage. Outages happen, sometimes even on the same day as other things.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Using Occam's Razor, I'd bet on the last option.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

[–] Album 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit uses AWS, not cloudflare.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cloudflare is a reverse proxy service, many services are hosted through Cloudflare on other hosting providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, DO, etc.

Reddit appears to use Fastly, but I could be wrong there. They used to use Cloudflare in combination with the rest of their infra