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OrbitalMartian :GoToSocial:

@rolltime That's fucking crazy, I get why CDNs exist but why do so many large corpoations use them, such an odd thing.

8 July at 20:50 | Wall-to-wall | Open on alpha.polymaths.social
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F4GRX Sébastien

@orbitalmartian @rolltime CDNs exist because megabytes of javascript and super duper HD images and scrolling video backgrounds.

8 July at 21:19 | Open on chaos.social
OrbitalMartian :GoToSocial:

@f4grx @rolltime I know that but why can't each large corporations host their own... They have the infrastructure majority of the time. That's the bit that amazes me.

I mean they could always go back to the good ol' days of plain text HTML.

8 July at 21:22 | Open on alpha.polymaths.social
F4GRX Sébastien

@orbitalmartian @rolltime It also amazes me. yes, of course more distribution of data is better. thats the way it should be.

8 July at 21:23 | Open on chaos.social
F4GRX Sébastien

@orbitalmartian @rolltime And there are vast amounts of middle ground between good old html and bloated sites as they exist today.

8 July at 21:25 | Open on chaos.social
Jess👾

The point of CDNs is to get your content cached all over the region/globe as close to your customers as you can with sufficient capacity to survive DDOS or even just surge traffic from going viral. All but the biggest companies don't want to invest in that much hardware and software capacity to stage servers in that many different data centers for only occasional peak usage needs, so they buy CDN services from someone who specializes in it.

Unfortunately, since it's a pretty expensive business to get into, it tends to settle into something of a natural oligopoly of only a handful of big companies.

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@f4grx @rolltime

The point of CDNs is to get your content cached all over the region/globe as close to your customers as you can with sufficient capacity to survive DDOS or even just surge traffic from going viral. All but the biggest companies don't want to invest in that much hardware and software capacity to stage servers in that many different data centers for only occasional peak usage needs, so they buy CDN services from someone who specializes in it.

8 July at 22:14 | Open on infosec.exchange
xyhhx :PunkFelix:

@JessTheUnstill mfs have never heard of a single point of failure n it shows

@orbitalmartian @f4grx @rolltime

9 July at 0:20 | Open on 438punk.house
Jess👾

More likely, they have a high enough SLA with their CDNs that they just build in the expectation that they'll have outages for a little while per year.
@xyhhx
@orbitalmartian @f4grx @rolltime

9 July at 1:24 | Open on infosec.exchange
Kurt 🕴️:verified_blobCat:

@orbitalmartian @f4grx @rolltime it's cheaper not to host it yourself if you are a huge corporation

9 July at 6:29 | Open on catcatnya.com
F4GRX Sébastien

@Kurt @orbitalmartian @rolltime and if the website was much, much simpler than the marketing team requires? And that does not mean ugly.

9 July at 6:39 | Open on chaos.social
Viraptor

@orbitalmartian @f4grx @rolltime not that kind of infrastructure. CDNs usually have a PoP in each region, with some good connections to local ISPs. Netflix can do even better and embed their storage at ISPs directly, but "large corporations" on average don't deal with that level of deployment.

9 July at 7:26 | Open on cyberplace.social
unfa🇺🇦

@orbitalmartian @f4grx @rolltime I think big business needs big buzzwords, so you can't have a website that doesn't use all the latest and greatest JavaScript frameworks, databases and stuff. If you don't have more microservices than users, then you're not doing real work there :D

9 July at 20:16 | Open on mastodon.social
gz

@f4grx @orbitalmartian @rolltime
JavaScript, killing the Web one page at a time.™

8 July at 22:47 | Open on sfba.social
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