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The idea is that a payment processor isn't involved at all

That's why you run Redis Sentinel in production

Would love to see what that Intercom replacement looks like! :)

Crypto is a cesspool.

Wait until you hear about the US Dollar.

Why not just use Claude Code's native "Remote Control" feature?

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control

Even with a dedicated IP, SendGrid has always had poor deliverability.

I switched to Postmark years ago and never looked back.

I'm near a major city. Your comments unfortunately do not align with my experience, nor the experience of several people that I know. Testing has confirmed this.

It amazes me that people still use and recommend Cloudflare's DNS servers for resolution. Cloudflare DNS does not support EDNS Client Subnet. As a result, DNS queries resolved by their service are likely to return IP addresses for many CDNs that are physically farther away from you, leading to a slower internet browsing and viewing experience.

Sacrificing performance for a faster lookup time makes no sense in 2026. This is the one area where I continue to use Google DNS as it just works. Use anything but Cloudflare in this case, please.

Parent pro-tip: Next time the iPad is having Bluey episode playback issues, check to see if you're actually using Cloudflare DNS.

Sure, you are only proving my point even further. I just happen to have a personal policy of "no boxes in prod under 16 cores". :)

450 million pageviews on Vercel = $46,000

450 million pageviews on a single 16c/32t OVH box with nginx and a 3 Gbps connection = $245

While I agree with your comment about learning more by doing the work yourself, you don't need to be a billionaire to acquire one of these. Yes, they are expensive. A typical pro-level WRC spec WRX STI rally car from Vermont SportsCar goes for about $600k. They are actually very reliable though. And thats a bargain compared to just about any modern hypercar.

Rally cars also must be street legal because they are driven on public roads between stages.

Source? Links?

You could have done this 20 years ago with public/private keys, certificate authority and ah yeah i think you know how our ca system works right? :P

This comment made me chuckle a little bit because blockchain has been around since at least 2009, which was ~15 years ago.

I would encourage you to watch any recent YouTube video produced by any Cybertruck owner. Middle America, who is generally anti-EV, disagrees with you. That is why Tesla is doing this.

It was working for people who were willing to buy an EV. Those people generally fall into two groups: 1) They specifically want an EV due to $reasons or 2) They are looking for a new car, and are willing to consider an EV. Both of these groups are fine with the current S3XY lineup because they resemble "normal" cars. That's why the Model S originally had so much success - it was a normal car, but electric. Even then, it was still a hard sell in 2013 to early adopters.

I'm going to stereotype a bit here, but Tesla YouTubers/Tweeters/Fanatics and the two groups above aside, everyone else is generally "against" EVs. If you own one, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The Cybertruck is Tesla's attempt to change that. Don't convince them on the green-ness or potential cost-savings of home charging, convince them because it's cool. It's something that no other manufacturer can compete against. (for now)

Tesla building the Cybertruck is their attempt to get people to buy something specifically because it is "cool", and not because it is "an EV".

If the customer buys it, they switch to an EV platform, thereby accelerating Tesla's mission of "transition[ing] to sustainable energy".

Leading with "it's an EV" is the primary reason why "legacy auto" has been scaling back their EV manufacturing, because people generally don't care about "EV". They do care about something "cool" though.

The problem is your service provider, Zoho. Zoho is used by a massive amount of spammers. As a result, many email blocking and verification services will flag any MX records that lead back to Zoho.

Here's a secret: IPFS is not a data storage protocol. It's a data routing protocol.

Start thinking that way and it will take you to a whole new universe.

To each their own, but I think this is said more frequently about Cloudflare because they are often playing the middleman, via their CDN service. In comparison, AWS and others are the actual origin.

S3 + IPFS = Filebase (https://filebase.com)

"This website has been temporarily rate limited"

TIL you shouldn't run a blog on Cloudflare Workers due to rate limiting.

The fact that this guy routinely asks for you to send feedback to his personal LinkedIn page says it all.

The cheapest EV car costs 35K

Chevy Bolt is $25k, before a bunch of credits. After it can get down to $16k or so.

45 minutes in traffic or 45 minutes of actually driving 80mph on the highway?

The average commute from home to work is about 15 miles each way, or ~26 minutes.

there would be hours-long lines for chargers

I think the common misconception here is that chargers are often compared to gas pumps. Do you visit the gas pump every day with your car? Most people don't. Most EV owners charge at home, often during night hours, to take advantage of cheaper TOU electricity rates.

The clear difference here is that with an EV, you can wake up every morning with a "full tank". That eliminates the need to use a public charger unless you 1) forgot to charge 2) are on a road trip or 3) drive a lot. The average commute is ~15 miles the last I checked, so I think #3 will happen, but it won't be very common.

tldr: You can't really leave for your destination in an ICE with a full tank. With an EV, you can.

"Bottom of the barrel" is a bit of a stretch. These cars have more chips in them than nearly any car on the road, with things like touch screens and Apple CarPlay to boot. It's important to remember the discussion context here: new cars. Does your wife's 40 mpg car have Apple CarPlay and a touch screen? And was it $12-15k brand new? If so, I'd like to buy one.

"Well new EVs cost 40-60k"

You've now been presented with information that shows otherwise.

To flip your own comment back on you:

Why would you toss it up on IPFS? IPFS isn't a decentralized storage network, it's a data routing/transmission protocol with a DHT.

I drove half way across my state yesterday to visit a gravity hill after finding it on Roadside America. If seeing this on the front page of HN less than 24 hours later isn't a sign, I don't know what is.

Hi there, Filebase CEO here - thank you for the questions and very valuable feedback!

1. We've been building Filebase since 2018 and have been live in production since 2019. We are relatively well known in the Sia and decentralized storage ecosystem. IDC, 451, and GigaOm have all done reports on us.

2. We are targeting web2 and web3 developers. You can safely ignore all of the NFT and Web3 mentions. Most customers today use us as a S3 compatible storage service.

3. Storing data directly on Sia absolutely costs more than $2 per TB. Their website is unfortunately outdated and that same number has been listed for years. Sia is a decentralized storage marketplace - hosts set their own pricing and compete against each other. Filebase goes to this marketplace and acquires storage capacity.

4. The Sia network is one of the leading decentralized storage networks today and has been live since 2015. I can't speak for the entire network since it's decentralized, but for Filebase specifically, we have over 10,000 users and are about to approach 1 billion files processed.

5. A Filebase website re-design is coming soon and will include your suggested ideas of metrics and logos.

Yes, many cloud providers do. However those redundant copies are typically located within the same datacenter.

Simple example: You have 1TB of data stored in a us-east-1 AWS S3 bucket. Virginia gets hit with a natural disaster, and all of us-east-1 goes offline. You no longer have access to your data. The only "easy button" way you could have prevented this scenario is if you had setup backup or bucket replication policies prior to the event. You decide to follow AWS docs. Disaster recovery 101 typically calls for 3 copies of your data at a minimum. You are now paying $70.66 for storage ($23.55 per TB x 3 regions) and $40.96 for inter-region bandwidth ($20.48 per TB x 2 replicated buckets) for a grand total of $111.62 just to store 1 TB of data. These costs don't even cover you or your customers downloading any of that data either.

At Filebase, we store your data on the Sia network. A 10 of 30 erasure coding profile is used, effectively creating a 3x redundancy overhead. Datacenters and clouds have been using EC for a while too. The critical difference here is that each shard is stored on a different server, spread geographically across the world. An entire portion of the internet can go down, and Filebase can simply fetch the shards it needs from other parts of the world. With a 10 of 30 profile, we only need 10 of those shards to fully reconstruct the file - we can suffer 20 servers or hosts going offline all at the same time.

If Filebase's infrastructure goes down, our health checks fail, and our DNS-level load balancer seamlessly redirects your HTTP requests to another Filebase edge location. And since all Filebase edge locations talk to the same decentralized Sia network, your data is magically available, and you may not even realize you were redirected. That same 1TB of data storage on Filebase will cost you $5.99, a ~95% cost savings.