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Hmm...it uses the CDN's servers. So "no server" or "getting rid of the server" seems a tad inaccurate.

Spivak 6y ago
We have to stop this. Words are either effective at communicating the speakers meaning or not. We all know what is meant by serverless and "without a server" and so you are only introducing ambiguity by purposely confusing the actual meaning with the literal meanings of the individual words. If I call someone an asshole nobody is like "but actually an asshole is just one part of..."
- danellis 6y ago
  > We all know what is meant by serverless and "without a server" Please feel free to furnish us with a definition that includes this product but excludes the existing solutions.
- XCSme 6y ago
  Personally I dislike the "serverless" word too, it's still not clearly defined and there are indeed servers being used that can still somehow crash, run out of resources, be hacked, etc.
- yreg 6y ago
  I genuinely thought they meant that the site is client only (perhaps distributed outside of internet) and was curious how that works. edit: The original title said "with no server". I would understand "serverless", since I'm familiar with that jargon.
danellis 6y ago
You're being generous. It's a blatant lie for marketing purposes. Its "solution" is the same as the second problem it claims to avoid.
- asiachick 6y ago
  I got flagged for saying someone is lying and was told "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
specialp 6y ago
CDN is by all means considered "serverless". Yes in anything that is "serverless" there's a server somewhere but you don't have to maintain it, you get charged by usage only so no running cost. Now their claim about being deplatform resistant is probably not true though as someone is running that CDN and can just as easily deplatform you. But serverless in the ops community does not mean literally no server is running. For instance Lambda must have a server running these tasks, it mean it is not of your concern and you don't pay for a long running process.

We have to stop this. Words are either effective at communicating the speakers meaning or not. We all know what is meant by serverless and "without a server" and so you are only introducing ambiguity by purposely confusing the actual meaning with the literal meanings of the individual words. If I call someone an asshole nobody is like "but actually an asshole is just one part of..."

danellis 6y ago
> We all know what is meant by serverless and "without a server" Please feel free to furnish us with a definition that includes this product but excludes the existing solutions.
XCSme 6y ago
Personally I dislike the "serverless" word too, it's still not clearly defined and there are indeed servers being used that can still somehow crash, run out of resources, be hacked, etc.
yreg 6y ago
I genuinely thought they meant that the site is client only (perhaps distributed outside of internet) and was curious how that works. edit: The original title said "with no server". I would understand "serverless", since I'm familiar with that jargon.

danellis 6y ago

You're being generous. It's a blatant lie for marketing purposes. Its "solution" is the same as the second problem it claims to avoid.

asiachick 6y ago
I got flagged for saying someone is lying and was told "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

specialp 6y ago

CDN is by all means considered "serverless". Yes in anything that is "serverless" there's a server somewhere but you don't have to maintain it, you get charged by usage only so no running cost. Now their claim about being deplatform resistant is probably not true though as someone is running that CDN and can just as easily deplatform you. But serverless in the ops community does not mean literally no server is running. For instance Lambda must have a server running these tasks, it mean it is not of your concern and you don't pay for a long running process.