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> [Senk] told Ars he is "a proponent of decentralization." sounds funny when talking about a guy who hosted their site on Cloudflare.
by danielspace23 2y ago
> [Senk] told Ars he is "a proponent of decentralization."
sounds funny when talking about a guy who hosted their site on Cloudflare.
- oddevan 2y agoIt's impossible to be ideologically pure with every single decision. We live in a messy world. In this case, I think he could be forgiven for (a) wanting to use his existing skillset to get his site online quickly and reliably and/or (b) actually believing that Cloudflare—based on previous actions—would robustly defend his site.
- account42 2y agoYou can get your site online just as quick without Buttflare. If anything, adding a reverse proxy is additional work you would otherwise not have to do.
- syndicatedjelly 2y agoIt's possible to support things without being fully invested personally in the idea. Does every proponent of decentralization also live off-the-grid and make computers by mining silicon by hand?
- danielspace23 2y agoThat's not really the same thing though, is it? You have to specifically opt into hosting your website on Cloudflare instead of any alternative, while knowing that it's one of the options more against your ideals. It takes the same effort to host a website on Cloudflare as it takes to go with any of the alternatives, like Netlify, Github Pages and Codeberg Pages (even better!). And all those options are free, too!
- syndicatedjelly 2y agoOkay that's your opinion on which service is "Better" or "Morally Superior" or whatever, I wasn't aware of any common agreements on the moral hierarchy of cloud hosting services. GitHub is owned by Microsoft, and they are pretty low on my list of companies I wish to work with