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How on earth could I, as a customer, be sure that netlify hadn't paid someone to DDOS me? If I were in charge of a business like that, I would have that thought

• rpgwaiter 3y ago
  Why go through that effort when they could just lie about site usage and say you incurred a bunch of traffic? Or make fake site "hits" from localhost? It's really the trade-off for using any cloud host. You are implicitly trusting the host, their monitoring tools, their billing system, and their customer support when things go wrong
  • Cthulhu_ 3y ago
    Both of those could be exposed via an audit or a whistleblower, either of which would destroy the company and its reputation overnight.
    • evilduck 3y ago
      As opposed to just negligently allowing it from the outside? Netlify still looks terrible here.
• natnat 3y ago
  This is insane conspiratorial thinking? How would being the only host that happens to get DDOSed constantly be a good business proposition?
  • cookiemonsieur 3y ago
    If you charge them for the extra bandwidth usage, it is. Not saying it's morally right, but definitely something a shady business would do. There's nothing "conspiratorial" about that. You'd be surprised how many conflicts of interest Big Gov and Big Business find themselves in.