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20 years ago if a blog or website ended up on slashdot/digg/whatever there was a good chance it was going down. Scalable websites are a commodity today

• rglullis 3y ago
  That goes both ways. What was the price then to get a botnet with 10k nodes making 1k requests / second? What is the price today?
  • ExoticPearTree 3y ago
    For the website or for the use of the botnet?
    • rglullis 3y ago
      For the use of the botnet...
      • 89vision 3y ago
        sure, It's no doubt an arms race. The prevalance of websites going down due to scaling issues feels like order of magnitude less than it was 20 years ago though. Purely anecdotal with no real data to back that up.
        • rglullis 3y ago
          Because the majority of sites run on/behind: - AWS - Cloudflare - Azure - GCP - Great Firewall of China Maybe there was some truth about "the world market for maybe five computers", after all...
          • 89vision 3y ago
            Sure, I fail to see how that invalidates my point
            • rglullis 3y ago
              What I am saying is that we are getting "scalable websites" today individually, but it has cost us overall resiliency because most of us all are hiding behind the big providers. I am not so sure if this is a good trade-off.