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Re: So this guy is now S3. All of S3

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Post by auscompgeek »

nijave wrote: post #218
throwawaaarrgh wrote: post #116

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Both http and dns verification are stupid. Neither of them prove you own the domain. http verification proves you temporarily control IP space relative to a viewer. dns verification proves you temporarily control name resolution relative to a viewer. Both are trivially hacked, multiple ways. By the time someone finds out you did it ( if they closely monitor CT logs, which nobody does) you've already had hours, days,…

Doesn't mandatory DNSSEC also fix this?

DNSSEC adoption is pretty low outside of customers of large nameserver providers (that support DNSSEC out of the box), and also requires the registrar and registry support DNSSEC too. Unfortunately there are still some out there that don't.

Re: So this guy is now S3. All of S3

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Post by capableweb »

yreg wrote: post #240
jszymborski wrote: post #136

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This post is on the front of HN. Many a larger website have succumbed to HN's warm embrace.

Isn't HN pretty small? This post has <400 upvotes over 3 hours. There can't be 1000x that amount of lurkers can there?

HN has millions of page views per day (maybe @dang can give a more accurate and updated number), and things frequently gets reposted elsewhere. Happens many times that things on the frontpage gets brought down to its knees, this wouldn't be the first nor the last.

Re: So this guy is now S3. All of S3

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Post by yreg »

popey wrote: post #175
NavinF wrote: post #50

> 429 Too Many Requests Aight, level with me: Is every mastodon server running on a Raspberry Pi?

You can also see the same "toot" as a "tweet": https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1653915932677271552

And the original tooter is apparently Google Translate?

Re: So this guy is now S3. All of S3

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Post by heavyset_go »

NavinF wrote: post #50

> 429 Too Many Requests Aight, level with me: Is every mastodon server running on a Raspberry Pi?

Ironically, I've seen pages make it to the front of HN that were run on RPis or weaker.

There was a guy running a site off of a single core 32bit ARM SoC that was able to handle the HN frontpage.

Re: So this guy is now S3. All of S3

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Post by jascination »

roblabla wrote: post #193
jascination wrote: post #188

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I use S3 for a simple app landing page and I use .well-known for deeplinks... Unless I'm misunderstanding your comment which I probably am.

Yes, but you don't have access to s3.amazonaws.com/.well-known, only to yourdomain.s3.amazonaws.com/.well-known.

Ah yep. The article is down so I didn't understand the context, ignore me!

Re: So this guy is now S3. All of S3

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Post by jeremyjh »

afavour wrote: post #210
jesprenj wrote: post #203

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So server software is not written with high performance in mind? I've read somewhere that federation is done via regular HTTP requests which ends up really hogging down servers if someone has a lot of followers.

Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails and there are some inherent performance issues with that, it generates a huge number of Sidekiq jobs that can bog down a server quite easily. There are other, non-Ruby implementations aiming for compatibility with the Mastodon API though, so I’m curious to see how it will all shake out.

People can make a case for the developer productivity benefits of rails to a startup or business, but it’s hard to see it as worth the cost to the Mastodon community as a whole. But maybe it’s won the Fediverse market because of the depth of features which is a benefit of that productivity.

Re: So this guy is now S3. All of S3

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Post by yreg »

capableweb wrote: post #252
yreg wrote: post #240

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Isn't HN pretty small? This post has <400 upvotes over 3 hours. There can't be 1000x that amount of lurkers can there?

HN has millions of page views per day (maybe @dang can give a more accurate and updated number), and things frequently gets reposted elsewhere. Happens many times that things on the frontpage gets brought down to its knees, this wouldn't be the first nor the last.

Source on the millions?

This person says they got 12k visitors over a day:

https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th...

The websites hugged to death by this forum are usually tiny hobby projects.

Re: So this guy is now S3. All of S3

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Post by reaperducer »

themagician wrote: post #244
reaperducer wrote: post #96

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Especially for business accounts, the level of friction was STUNNING. Honestly, that's a feature, not a bug.

Not in an economy that demands rapid, scalable, and infinite growth.

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