You have the power to not host your own infrastructure on aws and behind cloudflare, or in the case of an employer you have the power to fight against the voices arguing for the unsustainable status quo.
If you need DDoS mitigation then you essentially need to rely on a third party. Every third party will have inevitable downtime. For many it’s just whether you’d prefer to be down while everyone else is down or not.
The HN crowd in particular absolutely has a say in this, given the amount of engineering leads, managers, and even just regular programmers/admins/etc that frequent here - all of whom contribute to making these decisions.
You have the power to not host your own infrastructure on aws and behind cloudflare, or in the case of an employer you have the power to fight against the voices arguing for the unsustainable status quo.
If you need DDoS mitigation then you essentially need to rely on a third party. Every third party will have inevitable downtime. For many it’s just whether you’d prefer to be down while everyone else is down or not.
A lot of business would accept the rare downtime from Cloudflare in exchange for the DDoS protection.
If the internet was always a nice place we wouldn't need Cloudflare and similar :(
You also have the power to not pay money to big tech
The HN crowd in particular absolutely has a say in this, given the amount of engineering leads, managers, and even just regular programmers/admins/etc that frequent here - all of whom contribute to making these decisions.