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by atian 7y ago
Not Found
The requested URL / was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Always Own Your Platform
- cabaalis 7y agoThe server is responding, though, so maybe an argument for owning your platform is being able to permanently remove your content if you so choose?
- libria 7y agoShould return 410 Gone though. Here's a cache from another more resilient platform: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ybKXu0FR36AJ:alwaysownyourplatform.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ybKXu0F...
- soulofmischief 7y agoDefine resilient. In one month that snapshot will be gone.
- dredmorbius 7y agoAnd from an institution dedicated to preservation: https://web.archive.org/web/20190610162920/http://www.alwaysownyourplatform.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190610162920/http://www.always...
- afiori 7y agoOr maybe it is a meta statement of what can go wrong. probably no :)
- Nux 7y agoIt'd better be! :-D Lesson no 1: don't use shared web hosting. Though looks more like Dreamhost removed a site that was hogging down a whole server thanks to HN.
- soulofmischief 7y agoLesson no 2: Cache, cache, cache. Close that connection as quickly as you can.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- willvarfar 7y agoLots of web hosting providers have this kind of thing on cheap tiers if you go over the quota. So we can speculate that we've HN-hugged it to death.
- bitwize 7y agoNow, LoneStarr, you see that evil will always triumph -- because good doesn't scale.
- tdhz77 7y agoWhy do I love this quote so much?
- libria 7y agoTalk about a self-defeating message. Now I get timeouts. Things you get on BigEvilHost's platform: * SEO, discoverability * ability to handle HN hug-of-death * distribution * some SRE/dev-op makes sure your article isn't 404'd * backups etc. > Avoid unnecessary middlemen. They just proved why they're necessary.
- maehwasu 7y agoEveryone (or at least most people here) knows that Google has all those advantages. The issue is that we keep falling back on those advantages, rather than doing the work necessary to make owning your own platform realistic. I also laughed at the irony of OP's site going down, but these are the growing pains that will ultimately be necessary if we don't want the internet to be walled gardens run by 3-4 companies.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoAs a comment upthread mentioned, there’s no fundamental technical obstacle. Free software and commodity hardware are plenty sufficient to match any specific technical challenge at the HN front page scale. But running a web platform is a hard operational problem. Having all the pieces available doesn’t get you even halfway there; you have to spin them up and glue them together, and any number of relatively minor mistakes can mean the whole thing falls over. I’m not sure even in principle that can be reduced to a portable platform binary.
- quickthrower2 7y agoNetlify or s3 or cloudflare + learning seo covers the above points. Unless no one wants to learn stuff anymore. We need an evil corp because no one can change their oil anymore?
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- gambler 7y agoOn the other hand, a big platform can arbitrarily delete your account/content with no recourse, or just shut down. Happens all the time.