Google, Amazon, Microsoft down for hours at a time this year, and now Cloudflare shutting the web down for over 2 hours yesterday morning.
Following a power outage for a full day across Spain and Portugal in February.
I’ve never seen anything like that in 25 years on the web.
Meanwhile, our support channels are going crazy if sites are down longer than 5 minutes. One of the larger hosting companies had a 2 hour maintenance just a few hours ago, with other sites down in the process (this doesn’t make the news at this scale).
The web is both taking cuts due to inflated bubble hiring sprees and VC funding in the past years, and reporting surprisingly low uptime reports.
Investing in replication costs 6 figures on average, plus the ongoing maintenance and 24/7 support staff to execute as needed.
Meanwhile, businesses are losing more in a single outage.
Investments in the web of 2025 are drastically different compared to the 2010s.
