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Re: The plain-text internet is coming

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Post by willmorrison »

unmole wrote: post #28
gwern wrote: post #12

> He said that because the site is so simple and low-bandwidth, his Amazon CDN bill is only about $50 a month, and it’s mostly a fun side project anyway. Its success may change that, though: After recently hitting the front page of Hacker News and being featured on Daring Fireball, he said the site’s traffic went up 100x overnight, to about 100,000 homepage loads a day. (Those are all the analytics he has, because, a…

You can get a dedicated box for <$5? I would really appreciate any recommendations.

No, you can’t. Maybe a dedicated Raspberry Pi from one of the services that rents those out?

Re: The plain-text internet is coming

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Post by throwawayninja »

unmole wrote: post #28
gwern wrote: post #12

> He said that because the site is so simple and low-bandwidth, his Amazon CDN bill is only about $50 a month, and it’s mostly a fun side project anyway. Its success may change that, though: After recently hitting the front page of Hacker News and being featured on Daring Fireball, he said the site’s traffic went up 100x overnight, to about 100,000 homepage loads a day. (Those are all the analytics he has, because, a…

You can get a dedicated box for <$5? I would really appreciate any recommendations.

https://tnahosting.net/

y'welcome. $25/year = $2.10/mo

Re: The plain-text internet is coming

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Post by gwern »

wil421 wrote: post #30
gwern wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I pay Hetzner for an instance, what security infrastructure updates am I missing that is worth $595 a year? When I update the Linux OS and download the security patches, what am I missing compared to the AWS AMI of that very same Linux OS applying the same security patches? If I run a Debian AMI, is there a special supersekrit actually-secure Debian OS that Amazon gets but I don't?

Amazon updates their severs on your behalf. If I had a digital ocean droplet it would be up to me to update the OS and maybe Apache or whatever else would serve my text only site. I’ve seen someone miss a Wordpress vuln on a Friday and was hacked by Saturday. Not saying all hosting companies react quickly but they at least have teams of people watching stuff. Peace of mind is a valuable thing if you have other areas…

> Amazon updates their severs on your behalf.

No, they don't, unless I am very misinformed about how Amazon VM images work. If I fire up a Debian AMI, it'll update itself, or not. (How would Amazon 'update it on my behalf'? What if it needs a reboot?)

Re: The plain-text internet is coming

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Post by wil421 »

gwern wrote: post #34
wil421 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon updates their severs on your behalf. If I had a digital ocean droplet it would be up to me to update the OS and maybe Apache or whatever else would serve my text only site. I’ve seen someone miss a Wordpress vuln on a Friday and was hacked by Saturday. Not saying all hosting companies react quickly but they at least have teams of people watching stuff. Peace of mind is a valuable thing if you have other areas…

> Amazon updates their severs on your behalf. No, they don't, unless I am very misinformed about how Amazon VM images work. If I fire up a Debian AMI, it'll update itself, or not. (How would Amazon 'update it on my behalf'? What if it needs a reboot?)

The original article is taking about using Amazon CDN not a VM. When you use this hosting type style you are paying someone else to manage the underlying servers. Same with the people who use S3 or Wordpress or whatever namecheap/godaddy provides for static sites. That’s one of the reasons a VM can be $5 vs a CDN at $50 a month.
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