Jeff Geerling on Nostr: Hosting websites was so much easier back when I didn't have to consider AI scrapers, ...
Hosting websites was so much easier back when I didn't have to consider AI scrapers, malicious actors, etc.
It was more fun getting /.'ed and seeing things fall over than having to be able to handle a terabit of traffic in a sudden deluge multiple times a month.
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