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JSON Baumgartner

@jasonbaumgartne

Do you really want to trust getting your "news" from a website that still uses PHP 5.x?

You aren't even using an intermediate CDN caching layer. Amateur hour over at OANN.

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Ethan "no blue check before it was cool" Zuckerman

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Seems like they'd be pretty vulnerable if someone were to, say, DDoS them...

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Looks like normal web traffic could just as easily DDoS them. :)

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Ethan "no blue check before it was cool" Zuckerman

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You mean, if a whole bunch of people just went to their website and reloaded their homepage, without installing any special DDoS software, it could negatively affect their ability to serve webpages? Really?

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"Theoretically" I do believe that would be possible.

8:21 PM · Jun 15, 2020Twitter Web App