Re:Netlify was down
by nexuist on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:44AM
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And also considering that Netlify is marketed towards beginners just dipping their toes into web development as well as industry professionals, is it really a good idea to encourage beginners to roll their own anything in any conditions other than training exercises? We already tried this experiment with cPanel in the early 2000s; so many sites got pwned due to bad configurations and injection-prone PHP that we spawned entire industries and standards boards to deal with that problem. From a cybersecurity perspective it makes no sense to give beginners this responsibility and from a general productivity standpoint it makes no sense to ask beginners to become sysadmins + DBAs + SREs before they can get a single page up.
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I should add, this does not mean we shouldn't encourage beginners to explore all of these fields, but it should be done in training conditions (i.e. I don't care if this gets pwned) rather than for any serious application. That way there is no risk in messing up.
Thanks for your insightfull comments, indeed running your own hosting is a special skill, which some people like to explore, and I guess quite a lot don't.
Having broken cPanels around isn't a very good scenario indeed.