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What Is Load Balancing, and Do I Need It? Most people never think about load balancing until something stops working. A website becomes painfully slow during a traffic spike. An application server fails and suddenly nobody can log in. A planned maintenance window turns into an outage because there is nowhere else to send users. […]
Why your DNS shouldn’t live inside your cloud provider On October 19 and 20, 2025, AWS ran into the kind of failure that is easy to assume only happens somewhere else. A latent race condition inside AWS’s own DNS automation wrote an empty DNS record for the DynamoDB endpoint in us-east-1. DynamoDB itself was healthy, […]
Free DNS vs. Managed DNS: The Real Cost of “Good Enough” If your DNS came bundled with your domain registration, or you pointed your nameservers at Cloudflare’s free plan years ago and haven’t thought much about it since, you’re certainly not alone. For many small and mid-sized businesses, DNS feels like a problem that has […]
