Just disregard my "fat-server" comment. It's more from being disillusioned with all load-balancing solutions being tied to the service provider. I'd like something that was cloud agnostic, that was peered at multiple points with the major providers.
I guess this is step 1 in the same effort from CloudFlare, before they add AWS and Azure. But their interface is over-simple, understandable considering the technical proficiency of their average customer.
CloudFlare is too one-size fits all, but from a business perspective it's totally understandable.
I know it's a pipe dream, but I wish we could defragment the IP space and clean up the BGP tables. It would at least make anycast more reliable without resorting to DNS tricks like edns-client-subnet.
As for IP blocking, if undesirable sites are behind the same IP as publically demanded ones, it could make blocking actions harder to get the populace to support. But worrying about authoritative regimes is not my concern. After all, why make a service accessible if you cannot monetize the user base sufficiently.
I guess this is step 1 in the same effort from CloudFlare, before they add AWS and Azure. But their interface is over-simple, understandable considering the technical proficiency of their average customer.
CloudFlare is too one-size fits all, but from a business perspective it's totally understandable.
I know it's a pipe dream, but I wish we could defragment the IP space and clean up the BGP tables. It would at least make anycast more reliable without resorting to DNS tricks like edns-client-subnet.
As for IP blocking, if undesirable sites are behind the same IP as publically demanded ones, it could make blocking actions harder to get the populace to support. But worrying about authoritative regimes is not my concern. After all, why make a service accessible if you cannot monetize the user base sufficiently.
Yes, I'm a little jaded.