And nobody knows how stuff works at the web server level anymore... The C10K problem was solved a long time ago. Now it's just embarrassing.

Not making Cloudflare more of a central point of failure for the internet? We hosted web pages before they MITM'd the entire web.

> We hosted web pages before they MITM'd the entire web.

We also hosted web pages before the average script kiddie could run tens of Gbps DDoS on sites for the lolz. And before ISPs used CGNAT making direct inbound connections impossible.

Public IPv4 address exhausted and NAT happened.

Even having IPv6 is not a proper solution because of laggy ISPs(currently reaching ~50%) and the even the ISPs who deploy, do not deploy it properly. (dynamic prefixes or inbound blocked IPv6)

Add to the mix that lot of people does not understand IPv6, internet became more centralized and will keep doing so for the foreseeable future.

I like how they have amazing great free services and people are upset so many people use it.

That's what we all said about various Google products many years ago, too.

Then you just switch to something else. What’s the problem? You’re not locked in.

Nobody's actually doing work because serving web pages is cheap.

Is it really cheap through ruby?

That makes sense, because serving a web page to a few hundred people is not a computationally expensive problem. :3

I self-host analytics on the box (Plausible), which is using more resources than the website. There are a few apps on there, too.

Plausible is hardy compute intensive

I wonder if we could just make this kind of thing illegal so companies can't get away with it anymore.