Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
miles@lemmy.world 11 months agoIt’s called a single-point of failure in Engineering.
For that instance, yes. For the whole of Lemmy, no. Everything else keeps on chugging along.
Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
miles@lemmy.world 11 months agoIt’s called a single-point of failure in Engineering.
For that instance, yes. For the whole of Lemmy, no. Everything else keeps on chugging along.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Indeed.
Imagine if this had happenned to a centralized system like Reddit…
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A centralized system wouldn’t have this problem since the only reason they can’t just use another domain name is because of refederation. A great example of this happening is piracy websites, which notoriously get shutdown only to pop up five minutes later with a new domain.
This is actually a critical flaw IMO in federated applications as a whole. Not being able to change domain names makes your entire platform (as an instance runner) tightly coupled to the initial decision you make when first setting up the instance.