Agreed, absolutely fantastic movie.

How else would you do it?

Wireguard and Telnet ;)

My wife was complaining this morning that her "promotions" were not getting sorted correctly. She will be happy to know it is an actual issue.

Security. I host personal sites on Linodes and other external servers. There are no inbound ports open to the world. Everything is accessed via Cloudflare Tunnels and locked down via their Zero Trust services. I find this useful and good, as I don't really want to have to develop my personal services to the point where I'd consider them hardened for public internet access.

Not even ssh? What happens if cloudflare goes down?

Not oc, but services like Linode often offer "console" access via a virtualized tty for VPS systems.

Having a local backup user is a viable backup path then. If you wire up pam enough you can even use MFA for local login.

Then I log in to Linode or whatever and open a hole up in the firewall. That's easy. But Cloudflare rarely goes down, not really something I worry about.

You could restrict the ssh port by ip as well.

I feel like every week there's a new doomsday article about coming recession, and yet one has not appeared. Of course, if you print it weekly, people start to believe it and eventually you'll be right for one reason or another.

Couldn't agree more, negative feedback loops tend to reproduce the same outcomes. Maybe I'm pessimistic but seems like most folks aren't reading much at all beyond the headlines and tend to just regurgitate the negative prose on topics they haven't bothered to do basic research on, or repeat whats trending. Things change, economies shift, were all a part of the whole no matter how disconnected we think we are. The social reinforcement of gloom and doom becomes the market of consumption. It's time we put our heads together to produce solutions, focus on what we can do now, be proud of what we did today. Yesterday already happened, tomorrow will be the result of what we do with the time we have.

This very much sounds like something my wife and I have talked about. But I can't get it to load.

What if my home hasn't been upgraded to have an AI yet? Can it still join?

Yep this is not a dealbreaker

You do all that on 6-8 hours of work a week?

$1k a week goes a long way here.

Something I feel like these conversations seem to miss is that it is not binary; you don't have to host hardware on-prem if you don't want to be in AWS. There are other clouds. There are Sungards of the world were you can pay for racks of managed hardware. There are a lot of options between buying and managing your own hardware and AWS.

Seems like the way to know for sure is to test it. Wouldn't seem like it'd be hard to do that, especially if you have access to Catchpoint or something similar.

Fair.

I started to test manually with https://tools.bunny.net/http-test and https://www.uptrends.com/tools/cdn-performance-check earlier today, a few times per day executing these with the same file hosted on S3+Cloudfront and R2 (with enabled cache via custom domain) - and the results are all over the place.

Sometimes S3+Cloudfront is a bit faster, sometimes Cloudflare, and sometimes either of them are _really_ slower than the other one as well. I don't see any pattern yet, both in comparing the two but also for which locations are affected and so on.

Which might mean it would be roughly the same on average - but I was hoping someone else could help me go beyond this napkin math by sharing there practical experiences.