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by 89vision 976 days ago
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
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rglullis 976 days 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?
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ExoticPearTree 976 days ago
For the website or for the use of the botnet?
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rglullis 975 days ago
For the use of the botnet...
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89vision 975 days 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.
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rglullis 975 days 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...

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89vision 974 days ago
Sure, I fail to see how that invalidates my point
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