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october 20, 2025 @ 08:56 pm | est. reading time: 2 - 3 mins | word count 466

the internet just broke - but not my website

for the past few hours the huge chunk of the internet were (or still are) either completely innacessible or very, very laggy and slow to load.

and you may be thinking what could possibly go wrong? you can guess only once! that overpriced bullshit every corpo or bigger project seems to love: AWS is having a major outage.


imagine paying hundreds or thousand for a service smaller providers provide for the price of a cup of coffe, under false promises of scaleability and stability, only to ultimately end up being fucked in the ass. your multimillion corporate websites are down, or barely loading, losing you money... but my blog is still standing. and all of this just because you decided to blidnly trust amazon.

but my anti-corpo rhetoric aside, when did we decide that centralization is a good thing? when did we decide trusting a single company for the majority of the internet is a good thing? i'll be honest for a second we've undermined, if not vandalized, the beauty of the internet by centralizing so much with the damn cloud. but it's truly never too late to fix this mistake. this centralization makes me sad. because it's not only corporations: many people in personal webspaces rely on those centralized services. sure, probably not aws because its bloody expensive, but many personal sites are proxied behind cloudflare. and cloudflare is no stranger to having outages too.

if we continue trusting big companies, we might jeopardize the entirety of the internet. the biggest issue is that we have those defacto defaults everyone goes to: its always aws+cloudflare. and when either of those services fuck up, or something happens, the huge chunk of the internet is also fucked. but if everything was semi-decentralized either by running stuff on smaller hosting/server providers, having on-prem servers, or combination of both, the issues like the one we experience today wouldnt happen. it seems like we're going backwards than forwards in this sense of interconnectivity. not too long ago, most big services we pseduo-rely on had their own servers, and their own infrastructure and global outages were much, much rarer... but in the last 5-10 years everyone and their mother have moved to the cloud and unknowingly fucked up the entire internet lol.

it's honestly just scary how much power one company has. if amazon ever decides to pull the plug and leave the hosting industry, hundreds of thousands websites would go down. tens of thusands petabytes of data would be lost forever. its an unlikely, but possible scenaraio. i dont get it, how those suit and tie boomers dont understand the fundementals of the internet, even after their beloved centralization had bitten them in the ass multiple times...

so while the internet is burning, i suppose you could keep reading my blog :)

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