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Re: Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector

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Post by protocolture »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #166
Krutonium wrote: post #51

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>I have sometimes been told its unprofessional or looks bad to run things yourself instead of using a managed service. That's an incredibly bad take lol. There are times where "The Cloud" makes sense, sure. But in my experience the majority of the time companies over-use the cloud. On Prem is GOOD. It's cheaper, arguably more secure if you configure it right (a challenge, I know, but hear me out) and gives you data s…

Configuring something on premises to match the capabilities of AWS or Azure or CloudFlare is very, very difficult and involves a lot of local money and expertise that often isn’t available at any affordable price.

>Configuring something on premises to match the capabilities of AWS or Azure or CloudFlare is very, very difficult and involves a lot of local money and expertise that often isn’t available at any affordable price.

A large number of cloud customers dont need the complexity that the cloud can offer. Like, yes, its hard to 1:1 feature replicate the cloud. But so many people just have some VMs and some routes.

Re: Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector

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Post by pydubreucq »

supz_k wrote: post #141
GordonS wrote: post #80

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Are you using a US-based transactional email service like Twilio? Curious about EU-based alternatives.

Hyvor Relay ( https://github.com/hyvor/relay ) can be self-hosted. We are planning a cloud version for 2026. (I am a co-founder)

Interesting, I've added it on my Awesome Opensource Email Resources https://github.com/Mindbaz/awesome-opensource-email

Re: Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector

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Post by everdev »

spyridonas wrote: post #13

As a European solo developer, I’ve switched entirely to European alternatives for all my infrastructure since the beginning of the year. Cloudflare > Bunny.net AWS > Hetzner Business email > Infomaniak Not a single client site has experienced downtime, and it feels great to finally decouple from U.S. services.

Wow looks like you don't have one of the most renowned benefits of capitalism: over-reliance on corporatist infrastructure.

Re: Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

protocolture wrote: post #171
NetMageSCW wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Configuring something on premises to match the capabilities of AWS or Azure or CloudFlare is very, very difficult and involves a lot of local money and expertise that often isn’t available at any affordable price.

>Configuring something on premises to match the capabilities of AWS or Azure or CloudFlare is very, very difficult and involves a lot of local money and expertise that often isn’t available at any affordable price. A large number of cloud customers dont need the complexity that the cloud can offer. Like, yes, its hard to 1:1 feature replicate the cloud. But so many people just have some VMs and some routes.

And they would need a team to support the hypervisor. Znd its backup. And its performance. And, and, and.

This is fine if you are big. Anything smaller and it is a big problem.

This is also why they do not manage their plumbing and do not run z restaurant in house. Some things are better left to companies that do it at scale

Re: Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector

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Post by richardreeze »

spyridonas wrote: post #13

As a European solo developer, I’ve switched entirely to European alternatives for all my infrastructure since the beginning of the year. Cloudflare > Bunny.net AWS > Hetzner Business email > Infomaniak Not a single client site has experienced downtime, and it feels great to finally decouple from U.S. services.

Aren't costs higher though?

Re: Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector

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Post by hoppp »

AznHisoka wrote: post #112
littlestymaar wrote: post #85

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The good news is that we're just living in a perfect natural experiment: Cloudflare just caused a massive internet outage costing millions of dollars worldwide, in part due to a very sloppy mistake that definitely ought to have been prevented (using Rust's “unwrap” in production ). Let's see how many customers they lose because of that and we'll see how big are their incentives. (If you look at the evolution of their…

That experiment already happened last year with Crowdstrike. Nothing detrimental happened. Their revenue actually increased and stock went up

Stock went up because if they can cause a lot of damage without repercussions they must be very valuable.
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