"the internet is a resilient network"
the internet when one cdn goes down:
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@rolltime That's fucking crazy, I get why CDNs exist but why do so many large corpoations use them, such an odd thing. @orbitalmartian @rolltime CDNs exist because megabytes of javascript and super duper HD images and scrolling video backgrounds. @orbitalmartian @rolltime It also amazes me. yes, of course more distribution of data is better. thats the way it should be. @orbitalmartian @rolltime And there are vast amounts of middle ground between good old html and bloated sites as they exist today. 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. @orbitalmartian @f4grx @rolltime it's cheaper not to host it yourself if you are a huge corporation @Kurt @orbitalmartian @rolltime and if the website was much, much simpler than the marketing team requires? And that does not mean ugly. @f4grx @orbitalmartian @rolltime but the marketing team,,, do you know how many jobs that could cost? :neocat_googly_shocked: @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. @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 @Mendie_Taoma Yeah, not sure what’s down but it killed the GitHub pages site I was reading docs on, which was annoying. @rolltime my home website when one CDN goes down: still working all fine! @rolltime CDNs should be forbidden. If a site is slow, thats because the site has too much shit on it. throwing more hardware at it does not fix the problem, quite the contrary in fact. It's that picture where they build more highway lanes to reduce traffic only only for it to get all clogged up by more traffic again Braess's paradox. Related to induced demand. Thanks! I never knew there was a name for it If you build it, they will come... @float13 @foolishowl @f4grx @rolltime off topic / re: Braess's Paradox & "If you build it, they will come..." 🤔 how can we use Braess's Paradox for Good? #climateCrisis #rhetoricalquestion @float13 @foolishowl @f4grx @rolltime hey! 😈 What if we build LOTS of roads, they'll all be congested, and we line them with billboards encouraging a more earth-friendly lifestyle? Hmm 🤔 seems like overkill ... but, what's the digital version of that? #stillThinking 🤪 @deborahh @rolltime imagine if Amazon's cdn and cloudflare went down at the same time @rolltime Well, corporate websites are not the internet… which kept working just fine. So yes, IT'S ACTUALLY a resilient network… @rolltime Say what you will about the laptop in a closet I'm using as a server, but when something like this happens, it just keeps chugging along. Ignore the fact that it was down for four days because I had to buy a replacement machine. @rolltime@freeradical.zone it’s gonna be even worse when congress passss a bill banning self hosting and demands anyone who wants to host anything run it by them and pay trillions of dollars first. Thing is, downdetector is still working fine in order for you to make this point. Perhaps the internet is exactly as robust and resilient as it claims, but these capitalist sites with their insane requirements and user loads that *require* these massive meta-networks of dumb data delivery servers, maybe they are not so well-thought-out as the underlying infrastructure that is perfectly capable of watching them burn out regularly. @rolltime @eurozerozero The cost of resiliency has always been anathema to the corporate bottom line. @rolltime Outage limited to the US east coast. |
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