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The same reason people host their emails, websites, photos somewhere else or host their infrastructure in the cloud instead of colocating. It’s not hard but jus
by dewey 8y ago
The same reason people host their emails, websites, photos somewhere else or host their infrastructure in the cloud instead of colocating. It’s not hard but just another thing you have to care for when your real focus should be on what you provide not how you provide it.
- cyberpunk0 8y agoDisagree. If you make an app and half of your infrastructure is rented out through third parties, that is a cost that you will ultimately pass on to the customer through increased price, trust placed in the third party services which implicitly gets inherited by the customer, or other means such as your internal codebase or your infrastructure becoming bloated in order to manage the interconnect with the third parties.
- taurath 8y agoIf secrecy/anonymity is important enough to put something on the dark web, using the same assumptions as you might on the public internet is silly.
- ben_w 8y agoPeople are silly. We look for silver bullets all the time. Political figureheads who look and sound good while lacking any depth, moustache-twirling villains to blame the bad times on, silly rituals which start because they accidentally coincided with good times, investment bubbles, and hubris followed by victim blaming. There’s nothing which would cause an otherwise competent business leader to even realise they don’t understand the limits of any given security system, never mind knowing who to ask for advice.
- jekrb 8y agoI mean you should have some focus on how you provide your service. By all means, take advantage of services that make your life easier, but you should at least know how they work on a high level should they ever go down and you need to take more ownership of what you provide.