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Maybe someone else's servers wouldn't be down when you post a link to your blog on HN. As someone who hosts a lot of his own stuff, that's the real selling poi
by avar 10y ago
Maybe someone else's servers wouldn't be down when you post a link to your blog on HN.
As someone who hosts a lot of his own stuff, that's the real selling point of cloud hosting. Not having to care about things like spam filtering, or how some blog you want to publish is going to scale in the face of unexpected traffic.
- ch4s3 10y agoAlso price. I'm not sitting next to a giant hydro dam or solar install where the price of running a server and keeping it cool is near zero. I still want to be able to take advantage of that.
- aphextron 10y agoMeh. It's not really a hosting issue, just poor web dev fundamentals. He's clearly using a non cached, basic wordpress installation on mysql. Just the basics of using a varnish or nginx cache + cloudflare would have prevented this. Pretty incredible to believe that people are hitting a database on their index page a for static site in 2016.
- avar 10y agoNone of that is in any way an argument against cloud hosting. Do you think anyone who uses say Blogspot has to care about any of that? The entire point of using cloud hosting is to pay money to not have to care about stuff like that.