Re:Netlify was down
by bdcravens on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:44AM
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Rolling your own hosting is prohibitively expensive for most but the largest companies. Most instead will opt for running their infrastructure on a cloud provider, which perhaps gives you more control over things, but you will succumb to some of the same downtime Netlify and the like will experience.
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Re:Netlify was down
by unityByFreedom on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @09:42AM
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Huh? Cloudflare is free so all you need for a static site is a $5 VPS.
That's not rolling your own; that's depending on 2 cloud providers. (the comment was clarified to not mean actual infrastructure, but still, you've really only shifted dependencies in almost every case)
Re:Netlify was down
by unityByFreedom on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:35AM
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It is in this context. The first step in moving away from something like Netlify is to have your own server with a free CDN backing it. After that I guess you can buy your own hardware and internet connection. But nobody here is suggesting we all create our own CDNs.