Vast swathes of the internet were taken down by yesterday's Fastly Outage. Although it was resolved fairly quickly, it certainly cost my company some revenue, and I'm sure had a massive impact on larger sites. Fastly's share price definitely took a knock following this incident, and rightly so.
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Fastly is essentially a CDN (Content Devlivery Network) that aims to speed up and secure websites and cloud services by allowing companies to "offload content to fastly". Ironically, they claim that their service improves the stability of your website/service.
The front-end of my site is hosted on Google's Firebase platform. It seems Google relies on Fastly to speed up content delivery from Firebase. I had never heard of Fastly until it caused my site to go down yesterday. Perhaps this is the problem with relying on cloud services such as Firebase or AWS: You have limited information and no control over what they use in the background.
I wonder if distributed technology such as IPFS would mitigate some of the issues around depending on centralised cloud services?
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It amazes me how many people think they know the Internet, service providers and how it all works when they don't. For example, the company I work for is also an independent ISP we promote ourselves as an independent ISP; however, in reality, we have bought a pipe through wholesale (BT Ultimately), and so while we get that statement: "You do our broadband........." we don't really. Apart from [some] cable companies, everything goes through BT house (British Telecom) in London in the UK.
The only way you can avoid BT is by living in Hull or using companies Like Virgin Media; however, even they piggyback off of BT in some areas, and that's before we even get to 'Cloud Services' where you find out that your hosting company is, in fact, keeping your data on an AWS etc.
Smoke and mirrors is exactly right!
It's scary how reliant we are on a handful of companies to keep the internet running!
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"We host 'Cloud Services' (I love that phrase, covers all eventualities LOL) in our Data Centre based in Manchester."
Cough: We rent some space in a data centre in Manchester. Bwahaha
I'm giving all the secrets away, I'll get taken to the market place and given a bullet for company.
Hahaha amazing!
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You have to be careful when people claim to have their own data centre. Most of them, like us, in fact, either rent some space and have their own hardware there, or a bit like AWS, pay to have them host your stuff and then pass that cost on to you.
If you can stop use Google ... I'm sure they can do this more in long run. They all time find something to fuck they users.
Yeah, that would be ideal.
Certainly going to look for alternatives to the Google/Amazon crowd for future projects!
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Cool :)
I wonder how long it’ll take Google to implement blockchain tech that prevents these type of things. Sorry for the loss
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