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pstolltoday at 4:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

Reality check - you are not pushing “_a lot_” of traffic relative to any hyperscaler or large scale CDN. They push hundreds of Tbps sustained. You don’t peak at a few Mbps.

They can monitor extreme outliers. It’s not an issue for them.


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aliasxneotoday at 4:24 PM

In hindsight, that was probably a confusing sentence. I was more pointing out how much traffic flows trough their systems which ends up making it an attractive honeypot, especially as a U.S. company.

ijustlovemathtoday at 4:22 PM

I think they're talking about market capture risks