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Just how vulnerable is the internet?

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By FRANK BAJAK and MATT O'BRIEN

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millions of $s in ad revenue lost

and nothing of value lost

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Live by the cloud, die by the cloud.

Self-hosting what you can with scaling on internet servers only when needed and only for content intended to be seen by the world. This applies to individuals and companies and govts. There will still be outages, but at least you'll have control, unlike when we trust cloudy service providers.

I didn't notice that fastly was having issues. My self-hosted servers pull the data local for access. It works even when the internet is down. A $35 Raspberry Pi computer can host almost everything a home user would like to have at home. Add a PSU and a case for a total cost under $50. Add 2 USB HDDs - primary and backup and that's all the hardware needed.

VPN Server instance. So your family can phone home, with security. This is free. 100% F/LOSS.

Nextcloud instance. This is free. 100% F/LOSS. Nextcloud has free clients for our tablets and smartphones. Nextcloud is a modular server. Add modules for things you need - a shared calendar, shared address books, video chat server, RSS feed reader, music organizer, or just your shopping lists or file storage. Each can be private or shared to specific users.

Little IMAP email server. This is free. 100% F/LOSS. Provides the same email view regardless of the client. Only see an email once. Priceless. It is nice to have all YOUR email under your control, on hardware inside your home. That's very different, legally, than leaving it on a cloudy service.

Backup server for your home network. This is free. 100% F/LOSS. Backups have 1000 uses.

If a govt evacuation order comes, grab your smartphone and your r-pi setup and run. Or just one of the HDDs normally connected to it if a tsunami wave is already on the way.

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yes, that is all good but what about streaming HD video to a million users?

Only if they are critical cat and puppy videos.

What critical hidef video needs to be streamed in wartime to 1M users? Sure, my fish tank is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, but I doubt 1M people would watch.

I can't think of any critical need for video with more than 20 people involved. Some tele-surgeries make my cut. Netflix does not. Tik-tok and youtube do not.

Russia is building a new internet. Hang in there ...

And who will choose to use this anti-privacy network with built-in state monitoring? https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/adventures-in-contacting-the-russian-fsb/

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Russia is building a new internet. Hang in there ...

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