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		vlaaad 30 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem Saying "other single points of failure" makes no sense whatsoever.

smt88 30 days ago [–]

Cloudflare and us-east-1 are single points of failures for millions of their customers, many of which overlap.

"Single" means "you only need one," not that there is only one.

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