Comment by not_kurt_godel

1 day ago

We have had something vastly better than an individual computer since idk, the mid 90s, called a CDN.

I guess if you want to call being informed about the online threat landscape "scared", that's your perogative. For me, it's common sense to avoid completely unnecessary threat vectors to my digital infrastructure, but power to you if you like dealing with extra maintenance overhead and constantly wondering whether you're providing free cryptomining to some random international criminal.

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vsgherzi  1 day ago

There's threats on the internet, so don't spin up servers? Idk am I reading into that unfairly? That seems pretty fear mongering to me. Lots of engineering goes into making things safe for engineers to build on. Of course you can also just use squarespace and not worry about it at all. Perhaps my security posture is just not as intense as yours but I'm really just not super concerned my blog is going to get pwned. If it does then I get to learn some interesting things.

I'm also not sure that I really need a CDN for a simple blog . I'm not going to benefit from the caching as it's not video or images.

  • not_kurt_godel  21 hours ago

    Servers are work, including security overhead, so yes, don't spin them up if there is an alternative solution that is superior in every way except for not being able to churn digital butter.

    • vsgherzi  21 hours ago

      Yknow unfortunately I just don't think we're going to see eye to eye on this one. I really don't mind that small amount work and I enjoy owning and operating the entire stack. That dosen't really seem like your cup of tea.

      The flexibility and learning is more important for me. For example I want to aggregate HN comments and lobste.rs comments and inject that into the HTML before serving. (on the server side so no CORS or other additions)

      I was considering adding additional metrics to see who is hitting the server and how at the reverse proxy level.

      This is all stuff I can't really do on a github pages blog.

      I see what you're saying if you want set and forget that's fine, but like I said above it's a tradeoff.

      The one server I have just has 80 and 443 open with nginx. I expect it to run indefinitely with little maintenance.

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