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Re: Authentication over HTTP

J Ross Nicoll <jrn@jrn.me.uk> Mon, 15 July 2013 23:09 UTC

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On 15/07/2013 17:35, Henry Story wrote:

>>> Computational cost is no longer a problem. Google and Facebook provide
>>> it with billions of connections a day.
>> That's like saying "transportation is non-issue, because Bill Gates
>> have a private jet."
>>
>> Not everybody has Google and FaceBook's globally distributed resources,
>> nor their laser-like focus on delivering web-content.
> For those who don't have billions of hits a day, they have even less
> of an issue, since they have more spare cycles. Computer power has massively
> increased since 1998.
>
I think the point is that for someone with a $9/month hosting plan for 
their Wordpress blog, they only get a tiny slice of the resources on an 
already overstretched system they're probably sharing with a dozen or 
more other people. People aren't necessarily paying for the same 
proportion of computing power, instead we're seeing hosting become cheaper.

Ross

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