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Didn't Google announce their own DDOS protection service some month ago?
Re: on Monday April 13, 2015 @11:27AM (#9368140)
Thats the first time I hear about ngrok. Seems like a very useful tool. Thanks HN!
Re:Larger iPad USB-C possibility on Monday April 13, 2015 @11:19AM (#9368104)
When I first heard the rumors about a larger iPad I thought who on earth would want a big iPad? But Apple obviously knows what their customers want.
Amazon doesn't contribute much to the open source community. Most of their contributions happened around the XEN project which they use to power EC2.

Ask HN: Why is cloud storage so cheep?

Today Dropbox dropped prices. They now offer 1 TB for $10/month. Other providers like Google Drive have similar offers for quite some time.I wonder how they do this. Dropbox uses Amazon S3 to save files. The lowest possible price on S3 is $0.0275/GB/month. If a Dropbox user utilizes all available space it would cost Dropbox $27.50/month. In addition most users are not paying for Dropbox but use...

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