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Sorry... we probably should have put a CDN in front of our humble Linode box earlier. Here's a cache link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200629103627/https://n

Sorry... we probably should have put a CDN in front of our humble Linode box earlier. Here's a cache link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200629103627/https://nimbleindustries.io/2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acquisition-by-microsoft/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200629103627/https://nimbleind... Edit: Cloudflare seems to be working now. Wow, that was really easy to setup.

risyachka 6y ago
Its hard for me to trust your products if you didn't even have a Cloudflare in front. EDIT: I don't imply the product is bad, sorry
- foota 6y ago
  I imagine this is just for their blog, which is probably an afterthought.
  - colinbartlett 6y ago
    That's correct, this was only our blog. We've only just recently begun an effort to publish more frequent and more interesting content. Although OP's point is fair.
- asattarmd 6y ago
  That’s a statement
- wolco 6y ago
  I would trust it less.
  - risyachka 6y ago
    The point is attention to details. Their blog went down in a matter of minutes. Can you be sure their product will not?
robertlagrant 6y ago
:-) Cloudflare is amazing, yes. Everyone should use it by default, I say.
- sixhobbits 6y ago
  Until they go down too.. I vote for more diversity rather.
- aerojoe23 6y ago
  As an individual or small business I agree with you. Their free tier is amazing? And they seem to be awesome people with only the best intentions. I hope for more diversity, for many reasons. One of which is that they are a know man-in-the-middle, that can see the plan text of what appears to be secure communication to the user. It operates in the US, it can be compelled to, and to do it silently, into using their position to spy on people. That said we use them at work and I use them personally. I'm not doing anything "risky" at all. But there are many cases in history where suddenly the government changes and now you are. And apparently black people are always doing something "risky" in the US.
- stepbeek 6y ago
  Man, I really want to say we don't because of the implications of too centralised an internet, but there's no way it isn't a transitive dependency.
  - syberspace 6y ago
    What the hell are you building that there has to be Cloudflare in the dependency tree at some point?
    - Lammy 6y ago
      Any javascript CDN?
      - classified 6y ago
mattbillenstein 6y ago
How many req/s before you fell over?
- dom96 6y ago
  I often wonder what kind of stack websites that fall over under HN traffic have. From my perspective HN doesn't actually bring that much traffic, so I find it curious which software is so fragile to fall over when getting HN front page traffic.
  - derwiki 6y ago
    Before you have that need it seems like premature optimization. If I had a blog that was getting a handful of views/day, I probably wouldn't bother with CDN/scalability until it became an issue. Or use something like Medium (which I do).
  - mattbillenstein 6y ago
    Yeah, I've always thought blogs that didn't render to static pages were just sorta silly - for just a few hits a day, it's very simple, and if you get a flood of traffic, even a small vps could keep up.

risyachka 6y ago

Its hard for me to trust your products if you didn't even have a Cloudflare in front. EDIT: I don't imply the product is bad, sorry

foota 6y ago
I imagine this is just for their blog, which is probably an afterthought.
- colinbartlett 6y ago
  That's correct, this was only our blog. We've only just recently begun an effort to publish more frequent and more interesting content. Although OP's point is fair.
asattarmd 6y ago
That’s a statement
wolco 6y ago
I would trust it less.
- risyachka 6y ago
  The point is attention to details. Their blog went down in a matter of minutes. Can you be sure their product will not?

robertlagrant 6y ago

:-) Cloudflare is amazing, yes. Everyone should use it by default, I say.

sixhobbits 6y ago
Until they go down too.. I vote for more diversity rather.
aerojoe23 6y ago
As an individual or small business I agree with you. Their free tier is amazing? And they seem to be awesome people with only the best intentions. I hope for more diversity, for many reasons. One of which is that they are a know man-in-the-middle, that can see the plan text of what appears to be secure communication to the user. It operates in the US, it can be compelled to, and to do it silently, into using their position to spy on people. That said we use them at work and I use them personally. I'm not doing anything "risky" at all. But there are many cases in history where suddenly the government changes and now you are. And apparently black people are always doing something "risky" in the US.
stepbeek 6y ago
Man, I really want to say we don't because of the implications of too centralised an internet, but there's no way it isn't a transitive dependency.
- syberspace 6y ago
  What the hell are you building that there has to be Cloudflare in the dependency tree at some point?
  - Lammy 6y ago
    Any javascript CDN?
    - classified 6y ago

mattbillenstein 6y ago

How many req/s before you fell over?

dom96 6y ago
I often wonder what kind of stack websites that fall over under HN traffic have. From my perspective HN doesn't actually bring that much traffic, so I find it curious which software is so fragile to fall over when getting HN front page traffic.
- derwiki 6y ago
  Before you have that need it seems like premature optimization. If I had a blog that was getting a handful of views/day, I probably wouldn't bother with CDN/scalability until it became an issue. Or use something like Medium (which I do).
- mattbillenstein 6y ago
  Yeah, I've always thought blogs that didn't render to static pages were just sorta silly - for just a few hits a day, it's very simple, and if you get a flood of traffic, even a small vps could keep up.