lvl

joined 1 year ago
[–] lvl@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Try not to use paths, you'll have some weird cross-interactions when two pieces of software set the same cookie (session cookies for example), which will make you reauthenticate for every path.

Subdomains are the way to go, especially with wildcard DNS entries and DNS-01 letsencrypt challenges.

[–] lvl@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I second that. Amazing easy to use, configure, supports (LetsEncrypt) certificates via DNS-01 challenge and integrates with ease with most DNS providers.

Paired with authentication providers (keycloak, authelia, authentik), the "advanced" textbox lets you do forward proxying really easy, or customize your "basic proxy".

I'm not sure how many of these features are present in Traefik, it would be really nice if any of you know if any of these are easily supported in it:

  • Forward proxying
  • Custom rewrites (nginx internal; rewrites)
  • Unattended DNS-01 support with ACME (LetsEncrypt)
[–] lvl@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My bet is liquidity is nonexistent. They are paying AWS with Amazon Advertising revenue: Amazon withholds ad payments for paying their AWS bills.

Would've expected the Xth richest person on earth to afford a bit of cloud services, especially after he bragged that he's simplifying the infrastructure, reduces infra costs.

[–] lvl@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

As Netflix tested these changes in other parts of the world first, they had sufficient metrics to know how this change will affect their user-base. They are expecting an increase in subs and in income.

I cancelled my sub (4 screens), which was shared among 5 people. Two of these decided to resubscribe by themselves, although not in the 4 screens configuration. From my calculations this means:

  • Cancellation of a 18EUR subscription
  • 2 new customers on Standard, 13EUR each
  • Netflix took a profit of 6EUR from this operation, while gaining an extra subscription.

I think this matches their "100% increase in subs" metric. The only question is how many others who resubscribe will go for the 2 screens (Standard) sub, or the 1 screen (Basic) sub. With basic, the same situation would result in a ~2EUR decrease in revenue.