Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses | Hacker News

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All of these problems and many more are bypassed with a good VPN. It amazes me how few services ever take into consideration that people don't always live and work in their country of origin. If VPN's are clamped down on it's going to make life difficult for tens of millions of people. VPN's are actually VITAL in many situations.

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Cloudflare’s Uptime and Scale

Link ⇢ 本文讨论了 Cloudflare(一家提供互联网基础设施服务的公司)对于像 Daring Fireball (DF) 这样的网站的重要性。尽管 Cloudflare 曾发生一次中断,导致 DF 无法访问约 90 分钟,但作者 John Gruber 并不打算停止使用他们的服务。他解释说,在 2018 年使用 Cloudflare 之前,Daring Fireball 管理着自己的服务器,设置很简单。然而,转向 HTTPS(超文本传输安全协议,一种更安全的网络协议版本)增加了复杂性。Gruber 最初使用 Cloudflare 是为了解决导致速度变慢的 SSL(安全套接字层,一种安全技术)问题,也为了 DNS(域名系统,将网站名称转换为 IP