← Back to context Comment by stefan_ 21 hours ago So that they can pay 100x more expenses for.. no gain? They would pay an arm just for traffic. 8 comments stefan_ Reply kevin_thibedeau 7 hours ago It's OpEx. MBAs will pour unlimited money into OpEx to avoid CapEx. somehnguy 7 hours ago Clearly I don't have an MBA because this mindset doesn't make sense to me. Burning money unnecessarily is burning money unnecessarily, no matter where it's burned. arcfour 20 hours ago CloudFlare is free/cheap and hey presto, no servers to manage! herewulf 19 hours ago And when your Cloudflare site is down, most of the Internet is down too! There's no downside! arcfour 3 hours ago That's true. It will be down much less often than a single server in someone's basement. encrypted_bird 19 hours ago Counterpoint: that would require using CloudFlare. arcfour 19 hours ago That is, in my opinion, far superior to using a single server ran by "someone". 1 reply →
kevin_thibedeau 7 hours ago It's OpEx. MBAs will pour unlimited money into OpEx to avoid CapEx. somehnguy 7 hours ago Clearly I don't have an MBA because this mindset doesn't make sense to me. Burning money unnecessarily is burning money unnecessarily, no matter where it's burned.
somehnguy 7 hours ago Clearly I don't have an MBA because this mindset doesn't make sense to me. Burning money unnecessarily is burning money unnecessarily, no matter where it's burned.
arcfour 20 hours ago CloudFlare is free/cheap and hey presto, no servers to manage! herewulf 19 hours ago And when your Cloudflare site is down, most of the Internet is down too! There's no downside! arcfour 3 hours ago That's true. It will be down much less often than a single server in someone's basement. encrypted_bird 19 hours ago Counterpoint: that would require using CloudFlare. arcfour 19 hours ago That is, in my opinion, far superior to using a single server ran by "someone". 1 reply →
herewulf 19 hours ago And when your Cloudflare site is down, most of the Internet is down too! There's no downside! arcfour 3 hours ago That's true. It will be down much less often than a single server in someone's basement.
arcfour 3 hours ago That's true. It will be down much less often than a single server in someone's basement.
encrypted_bird 19 hours ago Counterpoint: that would require using CloudFlare. arcfour 19 hours ago That is, in my opinion, far superior to using a single server ran by "someone". 1 reply →
arcfour 19 hours ago That is, in my opinion, far superior to using a single server ran by "someone". 1 reply →
It's OpEx. MBAs will pour unlimited money into OpEx to avoid CapEx.
Clearly I don't have an MBA because this mindset doesn't make sense to me. Burning money unnecessarily is burning money unnecessarily, no matter where it's burned.
CloudFlare is free/cheap and hey presto, no servers to manage!
And when your Cloudflare site is down, most of the Internet is down too! There's no downside!
That's true. It will be down much less often than a single server in someone's basement.
Counterpoint: that would require using CloudFlare.
That is, in my opinion, far superior to using a single server ran by "someone".
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