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

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Niiice! Thank you for the laugh.

I wonder though where is it hosted? Digital Ocean? :)

As the Web becomes more and more entangled, I don't know if there is any guarantee of what is really independent. We should make a diagram of this. Hopefully no cyclic dependencies there yet.

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

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Is it hosted on Cloudflare?

I feel like the classic East Dakota reply would be that cloud flare CDN does not host your data and merely proxies it (bonus points if he uses the words "mere conduit" in his reply and therefore cloud flare can't be held responsible yada yada). Jokes aside, as far as I can tell, https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ is NOT using Cloudflare CDN/Proxy https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ is NOT using Cloudflare SSL…

That won’t be an issue though - as we all know, DNS is rarely related to cloud failures

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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.

Those are all much smaller. Smaller providers have a much stronger incentive to be reliable, as they will lose customers if they are not. In a corporate settings management will say "this would not have happened if you had gone with AWS". its the current version of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" (we had MS and others in between). Hetzner provides a much simpler set of services than AWS. Less complexity to go…

> Less complexity to go wrong.

This sounds like a good thing.

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Do you need a CDN for a static html, no images? I would guess no, even if you.are being bombarded with requests

I would guess yes, unless you have a server with unlimited file descriptors and flawless connectivity to every other AS...

But CDNs are made for static content so your comment means I can't run a dynamic website unless I have unlimited file descriptors and flawless connectivity.

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Those are all much smaller. Smaller providers have a much stronger incentive to be reliable, as they will lose customers if they are not. In a corporate settings management will say "this would not have happened if you had gone with AWS". its the current version of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" (we had MS and others in between). Hetzner provides a much simpler set of services than AWS. Less complexity to go…

> Less complexity to go wrong. This sounds like a good thing.

It is, in itself.

It does mean that you get fewer services, you have to do more sysadmin internally or use other providers for those which a lot of people are very reluctant to do.

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> Less complexity to go wrong. This sounds like a good thing.

It is, in itself. It does mean that you get fewer services, you have to do more sysadmin internally or use other providers for those which a lot of people are very reluctant to do.

I bet most people don't even need the extra features.

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It is, in itself. It does mean that you get fewer services, you have to do more sysadmin internally or use other providers for those which a lot of people are very reluctant to do.

I bet most people don't even need the extra features.

When forced to use AWS I only use the extra features I am specifically told to or that are already in use in order to make the system less tied to AWS and easier for me to manage (I am not an AWS specialist so its easier for me to just run stuff like I would on any server or VPS). I particularly dislike RDS (of things I have used). I like Lightsail because its reasonably priced and very like just getting a VPS.

S3 is something of an exception, but it does not tie you down (everyone provides block storage now, and you can use S3 even if everything else is somewhere else) for me if storing lots of large files that are not accessed very much (so egress fees are low).

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

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But we need another one to detect whether yours is still up. It's downdetectorsdown all the way down.

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector....
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