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A comment on The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks. Parent comment

Re:The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s H... by pyre on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:55PM (#10999867)
> Because it's trivial to figure out why he's saying that by simply typing "linode" into google, but as of right now googling starfighter doesn't immediately bring up any reasons to avoid them.

This doesn't mean anything. I could get horror stories about any cloud service provider via Google yet we're only being told not to use Linode. Providing some context makes all the difference.

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Re:The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s H... by tptacek on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:00PM (#10999893)
For the love of God don't host your apps on Starfighter.
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Re:The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s H... by cfcef on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:50PM (#11000102)
But think of all the efficiency & security by obscurity I would gain by implementing my apps in AVR assembly! Plus it'd be hosted in the cloud.
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Re:The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s H... by jvoorhis on Saturday January 30, 2016 @12:13AM (#11000623)
Weird machines as a service?
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