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The Internet is not made for centralisation!

• Nokinside 8y ago
  The internet has decentralized architecture underneath but the model is being abandoned because traffic volumes are too high for the naive decentralized architecture. Today 60% of the global internet traffic goes trough CDN's. In 2021 it will be over 70% in 2021 (over 90% in North America). There is whole "internet cache" industry standing between clients and servers. When you connect to some site in the internet, most of the data comes from some of these: Google CDN,,MaxCDN, Akamai, MS/Azure CDN, Limelight, EdgeCast, Amazon CDN, Coudfare,Rackspace, Incapsula, ... The issue here is not decentralization vs centralization, it's about browser selecting something for a user as a default.
  • rini17 8y ago
    You cannot compare CDN with DNS which does not require high traffic volumes nor expensive servers. The issue is pervasive laying of trust into "benevolent" third parties, CA's apparently are not enough and we now must have Trusted Recursive Resolvers, too. And it's more and more difficult to set up alternative infrastructure which does not rely on them.
    • Nokinside 8y ago
      >You cannot compare CDN with DNS I didn't compare them.