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Maybe, perhaps if you're a serious news organization you might not want to host your site on Linode. Not that Linode is bad or anything; I'm super happy with t
by tylerl 7y ago
Maybe, perhaps if you're a serious news organization you might not want to host your site on Linode.
Not that Linode is bad or anything; I'm super happy with them myself. But the way a company deals with abuse complaints (including takedowns) reflects the volume of these that they have to deal with, and the blowback they've experienced by overreacting.
If the provider is tiny, then takedowns are rare and interesting. They'll examine each one based on its individual merits. Though small companies don't have the resources to dump a lot of money into making things right, so they may just take the cheap route and kick you out.
If the provider is reasonably large, they'll get these all the time, and they'll have an automated and inflexible solution for dealing with them. It'll be heavily weighted on minimizing the cost to the provider, and will tend to overreact just to be on the safe side.
If the provider is huge (like, top N kind of huge) then they'll have started with the automated overreaction solution, but then they'll have had some massive disaster because their automated abuse system took down a client like Sony or the New York Times or something. So then the'll have dialed back their abuse system a bit and made it more expensive to run, but less prone to being destructive.
- jart 7y agoYeah, Linode is a scrappy little company from Philly that, sixteen years ago, pioneered the paradigm shift from things like CPanel to Amazon Web Services, but never became big like Amazon since there was always a focus on making their service affordable. But even if they were a big company, it's hard to make economic sense out of asking your lawyers to focus on protecting $5/month registrations from dmca legal prowling. The way I like to think of it is, we get what we pay for. If your hosting costs less than it costs someone else to hire a lawyer to write letters complaining about your hosting, then the will of heaven will usually favor the side with more dollars and cents on it.