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by bduerst 2566 days ago
AMP is like the bogeyman here on HN, when it is really just another web framework.

>The pages are hosted on google.com

Anyone can roll their own AMP pages and host it on their domains. For example: https://amp.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6yj6iw/what_did_...

This includes getting your own amp lightning icon in search results when you host with certified CDNs.
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JMTQp8lwXL 2565 days ago
AMP's HTML validator has a hard dependency on cdn.ampproject.org [0]. So the hosting requirements aren't fully isolated, and entirely under your control.

Also, I could not find a list of certified CDNs.

[0]: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/validator/...

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joshuamorton 2565 days ago
https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/caches.jso...

Google, Bing, Cloudflare are the three official caches, which is what I think they mean.

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bduerst 2564 days ago
Not true, you can validate AMP from localhost. The AMP.js packages comes bundled with it's own validator:

https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/learn/val...

Even then it's quite a stretch to go from saying Google controls AMP to saying the validator has an online requirement. Also, as the other commenter said, Google, Bing, and Cloudflare are currently the certified CDNs to get the icon in search results.

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