timrivera

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   by timrivera 13y ago

   > Most link farms do not have incoming links from highly ranked sites That's a good point I didn't consider.
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   by timrivera 13y ago

   Thanks for the heads up, I didn't know that.
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   Ask HN: why Google doesn't see HN as a link farm?

   8 points by timrivera 13y ago|8 comments
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   by timrivera 13y ago

   there's also the IP Anycast [1] option. That's what you get with OVH CDN [2], for example, but not with CloudFront. Anycast routing is totally independent from DNS, thus it works fine with an A record and also makes it easy to ins
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   by timrivera 13y ago

   This is actually a great point against using custom domains (CNAMEs) with Cloudfront. At least if you can't afford the custom SSL certficate option. Cloudflare somehow got this right. They serve non HTTPS enabled web sites with diffe
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   by timrivera 13y ago

   That's what I immediately thought when I first read it, especially now that Github Pages are served over Fastly's CDN [1]. Then I realized that Github Pages do not support server side (301) redirects at all. Quite a big turn-off
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   by timrivera 13y ago

   Bing used to be hosted by Akamai, looks like they switched over their own edge network. Also, https://bing.com just redirected to plain http, now you can actually search over https like with Google and DDG.
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   by timrivera 13y ago

   definitely not doing Anycast. As I wrote just a few days ago [1] github.map.fastly.net resolves to a different IP address based on the geographic location of the user. The exact server location might be approximated from the X-Served-By res
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   GitHub Pages served from Fastly's CDN(foolproofcode.com)

   4 points by timrivera 13y ago|0 comments