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Internet is no longer decenstralised. Some interesting DNS data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46159249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46159249
by yatralalala 10mo ago
Internet is no longer decenstralised.
Some interesting DNS data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46159249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46159249
- huijzer 10mo agoHence why I wrote a post on 18th of Nov (previous Cloudflare outage): https://huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-not-put-your-site-behind-cloudflare-if-you-dont-need-to https://huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-not-put-your-site-behind-cl.... That blog post made it to the front page of HN and my site did not go down. Nor did any DDoS network take the site out even though I also challenged them last time by commenting that I would be okay with a DDoS. I would figure out a way around it. In general, marketing often works via fear, that's why Cloudflare has those blog posts talking about "largest botnet ever". Advertisement for medicine for example also works often via fear. "Take this or you die", essentially.
- em500 10mo agoYes, marketing often works via fear. And decision making in organizations often works through blame shifting and diffusion of accountability. So organizations will just stick with centralization and Cloudfare, AWS, Microsoft et al regardless of technical concerns.
- peanut-walrus 10mo agoCloudflare is widely used because it's the easiest way to run a website for free or expose local services to internet. I think for most cloudflare users, the ddos protection is not the main reason they're using it.
- miyuru 10mo agoI am using cloudflare because the origin servers are IPv6 only.
- bo1024 10mo agoCloudflare hosts websites for free?
- numlock86 10mo agoYes, they have free plans.
- peanut-walrus 10mo agoYup, the free plan is quite generous.
- YouAreWRONGtoo 10mo ago[dead]