What CTOs Fear Most
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Then it reappeared on the front page for a good two hours, now mysteriously dropped from #9 to #50 within one minute.
It's like there is a bot or mod that is flagging it down to #50. I'm beginning to suspect I'm cursed or someone has it out for posts from this domain! Kind of disappointing since I worked really hard on this piece. I've read how the ranking algorithm works but I don't have a voting ring and there is no flame war happening here. Sad face.
Everyone else is focused on either business or tech. You're usually the only one that sees both. There's nobody to spar with on the whole picture, you have to make decisions with far reaching consequences on your own.
On the far reaching consequences side, I didn't realize how important the choices we made in the first month were. Some of those are still with us.
Especially the first hires need to understand all parts of the business, not just their specifics
step 1) worry about how to get big enough that people even know who you are, and think that DDoSing is worth their time
step 2) worry about how to deal with the DDoS
completing step 1 is much, much harder :-)
If you are unfortunate enough to get DDoS'd you probably have enough money to pay for a service like Prolexic, etc that will shield you almost entirely from DDoS attacks. DDoS protection services are used to people signing up during an attack, so they are usually pretty quick to implement. The downside is that services like this tend to be expensive and can mess up regular traffic (especially if you are providing an API).
I'm learning a lot reading these interviews, so a big THANKS to the author!
thank you.