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> Most link farms do not have incoming links from highly ranked sites That's a good point I didn't consider.

Thanks for the heads up, I didn't know that.

Honest question. We know Google [1] (Bing and other s.e.) is fighting an endless war against link farms. AFAIK HN doesn't use rel="nofollow" [2] (EDIT: not entirely true, see comme…

there's also the IP Anycast [1] option. That's what you get with OVH CDN [2], for example, but not with CloudFront. Anycast routing is totally independent from DNS, thus it works f…

This is actually a great point against using custom domains (CNAMEs) with Cloudfront. At least if you can't afford the custom SSL certficate option. Cloudflare somehow got this rig…

That's what I immediately thought when I first read it, especially now that Github Pages are served over Fastly's CDN [1]. Then I realized that Github Pages do not support server s…

Bing used to be hosted by Akamai, looks like they switched over their own edge network. Also, https://bing.com just redirected to plain http, now you can actually search over https…

definitely not doing Anycast. As I wrote just a few days ago [1] github.map.fastly.net resolves to a different IP address based on the geographic location of the user. The exact se…