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

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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…

> I don't quite think companies realize how bad it would be if EG AWS was hacked. I don't think they'd care. Companies only care about one thing: stock price. Everything rolls up into that. If AWS got hacked and said company was affected by it, it wouldn't be a big deal because they'd be one of many and they'd be lost in the crowd. Any hit to their stock/profits would be minimal and easily forgotten about. Now, if th…

> Companies only care about one thing: stock price.

Its rarely affected in any case. Take a look at the Crowdstrike price chart (or revenue or profits). I think most people (including investors) just take it for granted that systems are unreliable and regard it as something you live with.

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

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This is GOLD Jerry, Gold. but who detects the down detector detecting the down detector detecting the down detector

Can down detector not detect whether down detector detector is down or not?

Maybe distributed down detection?

I know there are people here perfectly capable of running with that idea and we might just see a distributed down detector announced on HN :)

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

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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…

I think cloudflare has billions worth of incentives to be reliable however they can slip up, it happens and that's why centralization is bad.

That is true.

However, I would say that the effect of this outage on customer retention will be (relatively) smaller than it would be for a smaller CDN.

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

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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.

As an American solo developer, I am close to doing the same. These mega-corps are out of control.

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

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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.

Same here! I also got a nice peak in my traffic, because so many sites were down.

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

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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.

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