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Re:Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yan... by simondotau on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:16AM (#50042454)
You can learn to quickly diversify availability (or at least data safety) beyond the region of conflict when a kinetic war breaks out. The moment “kinetic sanctions” became the strategy, the risk to data centres should have been self-evident. And if it wasn’t immediately obvious, it should have been blindingly so when targeting expanded from oil refineries to Wildberries warehouses.
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Re:Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yan... by ivan_gammel on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:51AM (#50042790)
I don‘t think you can build a new data center in such a short time frame that passed since attacks on WB, definitely not when you can source hardware only from the black market.
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Re:Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yan... by simondotau on Sunday October 11, 2026 @09:07AM (#50042953)
I’m not describing what Yandex should do, but rather what their customers should do. Whether that means diversifying to eastern Russia, or China, or Belarus, I don’t know what options exist.
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Re:Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yan... by Bluestein on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:29PM (#50044960)
... and in the middle of the RAM-pocalypse, no less.-
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Re:Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yan... by testdelacc1 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:16PM (#50047378)
Wildberries warehouses were filled with flammable items boxed up in cardboard, packed for maximum efficiency and no wasted space. They were tinderboxes.

A datacenter is filled with server racks that wouldn’t burn as readily as cardboard. The fire videos I see of this datacenter don’t look as good as the Wildberries videos.

That said, I wish the Russian people good luck with booking their taxis and Yandex employees luck with finding RAM.

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