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Cloudflare is down: Network Performance Degradation — Asia-Pacific. Immediate workarounds for indie hackers.

BREAKING: Cloudflare Network Performance Degradation — Asia-Pacific

Status: IDENTIFIED | Severity: MINOR 🟡 | Impact: Partial

Time: Ongoing | Updated: Real-time

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What's Down & Who's Affected

Cloudflare is experiencing Network Performance Degradation across Asia-Pacific regions. This impacts:

Users in: Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, Mumbai, and surrounding regions

What's degraded: DNS resolution, CDN caching, WAF processing, and API proxying

Your site: If your origin or users are in APAC, expect increased latency (200-800ms), timeouts, or intermittent 503 errors

Scope: Partial—not all services affected equally. Some routes performing normally

Cloudflare status page confirms identification but no ETA yet.

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Immediate Workarounds — Do This Now

1. Failover DNS (60 seconds)

If critical:

Keep your origin DNS A/AAAA records updated and ready

Point APEX domain directly to origin IP (bypass Cloudflare) if you have it

Use Route 53 / Google Cloud DNS health checks to auto-failover

2. Origin Caching Boost

Increase Cache-Control headers to 1-4 hours (if safe for your content)

Add Cache-Tag headers so you can purge strategically

Reduces origin load while Cloudflare recovers

3. Geo-Routing for APAC Users

```

If you use Cloudflare Workers:

if (request.headers.get('cf-ipcountry') === 'SG' || 'JP' || 'AU') { return fetch(originDirectUrl); // bypass cache } ```

Routes APAC traffic directly to origin, avoids Cloudflare nodes

4. Rate Limit Disable (Temporarily)

Disable overly aggressive WAF/rate limiting rules

Re-enable once degradation clears

False positives spike during outages

5. Monitor Origin Health

Ensure your origin servers aren't overloaded (Cloudflare degradation = traffic spike)

Auto-scale if possible

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How to Check If You're Affected

```bash

Test DNS resolution speed

dig yoursite.com @1.1.1.1 +stats

Check Cloudflare node latency

ping 1.1.1.1 (if in APAC)

Test origin directly

curl -H "Host: yoursite.com" http://YOUR_ORIGIN_IP

Monitor real user metrics

navigationTiming = performance.timing loadTime = navigationTiming.loadEventEnd - navigationTiming.navigationStart console.log('Page load:', loadTime + 'ms') ```

If load times jumped 300%+ in last 30 mins → you're affected.

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Alternative Tools to Consider

| Tool | Best For | Cost | |------|----------|------| | AWS CloudFront | Global CDN + WAF | Pay-as-you-go | | Fastly | Low-latency edge computing | $0.12/GB | | BunnyCDN | Budget-friendly APAC coverage | $0.03/GB | | Bunny Optimizer | DDoS + CDN combo | $50+/month | | Akamai | Enterprise reliability | Custom |

Don't switch immediately—outages are usually 4-6 hours max. Evaluate post-incident.

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Monitor Recovery

Official: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ (refresh every 5 min)

Community: Hacker News, Twitter #Cloudflare

DIY monitoring: Set up UptimeRobot to ping your site every 60s

Alerts: Subscribe to Cloudflare status RSS + set PagerDuty

Expected timeline: Resolution within 4-8 hours based on historical APAC incidents.

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Key Takeaway

You rely on Cloudflare—that's good for 99.9% uptime. But diversify: keep origin health rock-solid, have a failover DNS plan, and monitor from multiple regions.

Stay calm. We've been here before. You've got this.

—StillNotAThing Dev Team