It even took down the very instance we’re posting this on.
You know back in my day websites would protect themselves, as was the style at the time.
Now a days they just get cloudflare and put up a cookie notice.
Just one of those things lazy devs do.
Most corporate IT hires fucking morons as admins :(
Where do I get a fucking moron certificate?
It would be nice to be hired atm.I’ve been a contractor most of my career and I can assure you, fair share of ID10Ts in my circles as well.
I remember experts saying 5 or 10 years ago that the increased standardization and centralization of the internet would lead to more frequent and widespread internet blackouts.
First AWS, and now this. It looks like they’re right.
Don’t forget the Azure/Intune outage not one week after AWS, too.
The outages are almost beginning to feel deliberate at this point.
Two things happen when we centralize. Doesn’t matter if it’s big business or infrastructure.
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Profits go up for the controlling few
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consumers get fucked.
We get fucked when things go wrong, the system fails, our data gets hacked, our power goes out, our rents go up, insurance rates go up… etc etc. MegaCorps all say sorry, give us 50¢ off our next purchase and a free credit check, and carry on while we eat the losses and increasing costs.
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it’s very concerning, but what are the alternatives?
Amazon the other week, then this. Really does show how vulnerable much of the net is
Being a good CDN is an expensive exercise that requires the ability to run POPs in many countries around the world.
Cloudflare captured the market by basically being simultaneously much cheaper, better distributed and ultimately better performing than the incumbents at the time (Akamai and Limelight IIRC)
The rest of the story is capitalism doing capitalist things
I think it’s very concerning, but not exactly surprising. It makes sense that there ends up being market leaders for digital services, because they can provide economies of scale much more than traditional services. As another commentor pointed out, they’re are alternatives, even just for back-up service providers, but most sites don’t pay for them.
What was more personally distressing was I realised how much I rely on lemmy when my instance, and backup instance, both went down. I’m not sure where I’d go for immediate news, especially about something niche like “why is lemmy down?”. I don’t use other social media and I found myself checking r/redditalternatives just to see if there was some info about the shutdown. Obviously, it was useless because reddit…
