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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
You tell me. Here's a list of maybe 15 sites it's happened to on HN in just the last month: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
Lol, I have years of experience managing/being oncall for business-critical production hosts that generated thousands of dollars of revenue per minute. While I don't profess to be a particularly skilled sysadmin, I will say the wo
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
u/grebc if money is subjective to you, then you're free to send me some as you objectively won't miss it.
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
Sure I have. Let me help you by recapping: 1. VPS costs more money. CDN is free for all intents and purposes. 2. VPS has worse availability even when run perfectly. 3. VPS requires more monitoring and maintenance. 4. VPS presents far greate
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
Great question...the answer is I don't, because I don't have any web hosting servers, or even persistent app servers for that matter. I've built 99% serverless for 10 years now and it has been glorious. Will never go back to
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
And that's A-OK for them if that person likes more work with more headaches for a solution that costs more and performs worse. (Although less OK for everyone else when their VPS gets compromised and made part of a botnet or otherwise u
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
I mean, obviously we're not gonna see eye-to-eye if you're talking about a non-static, non-hugo site, which was the subject of my comment. I've owned and operated enough stacks e2e both personally and professionally to have g
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
S3+CloudFront. GitHub Page's mere 99.9999999% uptime is only for the weak-minded, of course.
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
Servers are work, including security overhead, so yes, don't spin them up if there is an alternative solution that is superior in every way except for not being able to churn digital butter.
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
I listed my reasons, feel free to provide your own. I've done enough security, ops, and oncall professionally that I have zero desire to do extra in my free time. Power to you if want to do otherwise and/or post references to &quo
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
Good on ya. Personally I'm happier with my extra ~$6k, sparing of however many hours of pointless maintenance work over the years, and 100% uptime over past/present/future even if I go into a coma.
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
That's fine, it's not really a crusade. Just my opinion about the right infrastructure for the right use case informed by the objective reasons I gave. If doing more work with more headaches for a solution that costs more and perf
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
We have had something vastly better than an individual computer since idk, the mid 90s, called a CDN. I guess if you want to call being informed about the online threat landscape "scared", that's your perogative. For me, it&#
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
Of course literally anything can be 'reasonable' if you a priori like doing it independent of its technical/functional merits. My ex-coworker liked to write literally tens of thousands of lines of extra, completely unnecessar
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
You can put the whole thing on CloudFlare Pages for free too. Zero reason to pay for or deal with the complexity of an unnecessary VPS.
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
Personally I get my geek satisfaction from building systems that are rock-solid and require zero maintenance. Not choking on rare opportunities to go viral should they arise is a nice bonus too.
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
You can make it zero deploy steps beyond git push with CodePipeline, and vibecoding makes the annoying config setup trivial if you know like 20% of what you're doing. There is really zero reason to be using a VPS for this unless you ha
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
Boggles my mind that people pay money to host hugo static sites on a VPS, which is objectively inferior and harder in every meaningful way compared to hosting for free on GitHub pages or S3+CloudFront.
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
Steve Jobs would have taken one look at the design proposal and said nobody is going to voluntarily strap that fucking thing to their face and scrapped it on the spot.
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
Let's also take a moment to begrudge how government's guiding mission isn't to reap profit off its citizens. Are you even really American if you don't want your leaders to milk you for every cent you're worth?
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by not_kurt_godel 6mo ago
The difference with a rogue employee is they can be held accountable so they are verily heavily incentivized to avoid doing that (and hopefully also by the good pay and work environment you are providing them). And, a lot of DevOps/Se
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by not_kurt_godel 6mo ago
> The ultimate being that I keep all code version-controlled, and all databases snapshotted offsite daily/hourly and can rebuild them from a complete delete in fewer than X min. Mitigation is good, but what's preventing your su
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by not_kurt_godel 6mo ago
> specifically ask it to think hard before doing anything that gets close to the production data This is recklessly negligent and I would personally not tolerate a coworker or report doing it. What's next, sending long-lived access
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by not_kurt_godel 6mo ago
Works fine for me but maybe try https://web.archive.org/web/20260426213142/https://simonwill...
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by not_kurt_godel 6mo ago
For those who might not know the reference: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/17/bryan-cantrill/ : > Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison t
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by not_kurt_godel 6mo ago
> a few grand a month. A negligible cost for a successful tech business that also works when your requirements exceed the capabilities of a single VPS.
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by not_kurt_godel 6mo ago
JetBrains supports TODOs in every language I use/am aware of. Your syntax assertion doesn't make sense. Commented code is supported without interference in every common language I'm aware of. > I often use · to represent t
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by not_kurt_godel 6mo ago
That idea has nothing to do with source control that would replace git. It also already exists in the form of TODO tags and is handled exactly as you describe in JetBrains IDEs[0] (plus helpful semantic highlighting), and probably others as
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by not_kurt_godel 6mo ago
Why would users who never wanted change proactively switch to your product in the first place? And putting them aside, you haven't listed a single concrete technical idea that would indicate you have the vision for a car. Maybe you sho
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by not_kurt_godel 6mo ago
> The specific problem Problem for whom? Users who are happy using git? Or conartist86 who is thinking about how to get money? > the competitors to Github have to use git Why? Syncing between various VCSes has been a thing since forev

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