← Back to context Comment by stefan_ 2 months 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 2 months ago It's OpEx. MBAs will pour unlimited money into OpEx to avoid CapEx. somehnguy 2 months 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 2 months ago CloudFlare is free/cheap and hey presto, no servers to manage! herewulf 2 months ago And when your Cloudflare site is down, most of the Internet is down too! There's no downside! arcfour 2 months ago That's true. It will be down much less often than a single server in someone's basement. encrypted_bird 2 months ago Counterpoint: that would require using CloudFlare. arcfour 2 months ago That is, in my opinion, far superior to using a single server ran by "someone". 1 reply →
kevin_thibedeau 2 months ago It's OpEx. MBAs will pour unlimited money into OpEx to avoid CapEx. somehnguy 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago CloudFlare is free/cheap and hey presto, no servers to manage! herewulf 2 months ago And when your Cloudflare site is down, most of the Internet is down too! There's no downside! arcfour 2 months ago That's true. It will be down much less often than a single server in someone's basement. encrypted_bird 2 months ago Counterpoint: that would require using CloudFlare. arcfour 2 months ago That is, in my opinion, far superior to using a single server ran by "someone". 1 reply →
herewulf 2 months ago And when your Cloudflare site is down, most of the Internet is down too! There's no downside! arcfour 2 months ago That's true. It will be down much less often than a single server in someone's basement.
arcfour 2 months ago That's true. It will be down much less often than a single server in someone's basement.
encrypted_bird 2 months ago Counterpoint: that would require using CloudFlare. arcfour 2 months ago That is, in my opinion, far superior to using a single server ran by "someone". 1 reply →
arcfour 2 months 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".
1 reply →