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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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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?

For the website or for the use of the botnet?

For the use of the botnet...

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.

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...

Sure, I fail to see how that invalidates my point

What I am saying is that we are getting "scalable websites" today individually, but it has cost us overall resiliency because most of us all are hiding behind the big providers. I am not so sure if this is a good trade-off.

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