Hacker News Reader

Not a useful comment 20 minutes into an outage.

The internet is an interconnected web of dependencies. Unless you are Cloudflare/Akamai/Amazon/Google there is no self-hosted anymore.

You can host in your basement if you like but you're still dependent on your ISP.

View on HN

> The internet is an interconnected web of dependencies.

Ironically this is exactly what increasingly centralisation weakens. The huge cloud providers have eroded "an interconnected web of dependencies" into few huge server farms servicing everyone else.

Unfortunately, bad actors have made centralisation necessary for many sites to survive against even low-traffic attacks

Reply on news.ycombinator.com