I mean, isn't that part of the point? Decentralization to smaller systems

He should be able to afford a lot more redundancy than our garage hosters.

The scale makes it more embarrassing, not less.

To be fair, it’s never DNS ;]

Sometimes it's BGP.

I mean, sure, I do understand what's happening on a logical level. I'm just so baffled, because this whole internet thingamabob was architected by the military.
It was intentionally built, so that parts of it could fail without disrupting the rest. When a corporation fucks up, it was supposed to take down the servers of that corporation, not also a good chunk of the rest.

But unfortunately, this internet thingamabob is merely the closest approximation we have for the "perfect market" that economics theory calls for, so it still doesn't actually self-regulate like that whole theory would love to believe.
In fact, it is so much worse, because now monopolization happens across the whole planet. Particularly also because we don't have a functioning "world government" that could enforce competition at that level via laws.

So, the network leads to companies monopolizing on top of it and then monopolies necessitate that the respective companies do as poor of a job as possible, because this reduces costs and increases profits. As a result, major parts of this military-grade internet now falter every few weeks.

yes. it also prevents attacks. it's basically a necessity these days.

if you host your own stuff and get any traffic you'll get DDoSed by bots. cloudflare prevents this by detaching your DNS from your IP and distributing requests.

just port forwarding on your home network these days... and you'll get dozens of attacks per hour.

the internet is not 'nice' anymore. services like cloudflare are a necessity for any active services beyond personal use. long gone are the days you could host a web server from your bedroom.

I do use it myself (free tier only) but it’s out of ease and convenience. I’m ready to abandon it but I like the security it brings. My stuff is just personal garbage with no strict uptime requirement - if I lose public access I still have Tailscale and a VPN to my router as backup.

So, it’s a deal with the devil for sure, but it’s one I wore protection for when signing.

I haven't exposed anything to internet and self hosted headscale instance. I'm not behind CGNAT so it was quite easy.

Do you have VPS recommendations? I searched for a bit on Lemmy and found out Vultr might not be a good option (they sell your data).

I'm not sure this is what I'm looking for, I appreciate it though!

I'm hoping for something where the only thing I need to have on someone elses system is DNS entries, ideally.

I know I can use duckdns to automatically update my dns entries when my public IP expires (residential conn), and I know how to handle setting up DNS entries themselves(I hate dns 😓) but I'm just not sure how to configure nginx or apache. As it stands the only "get this thing on the web" tool I'm actually proficient with is streamlit, which I can't use with my selfhosted tools.

ooo thats a cool website. Just for the funnies I just threw the top 35 (as shown by fediverse observer) into it.

i feel bad for you

are them still down?

I don't know how many 9s I do ... but I don't care. We should not think of metrics of uptime or scalability like BigTech, we're not them. We're not "selling" the same "product". To me it's about agency, empowerment, creativity, privacy, not uptime.