On: One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown

[gilbertbw]

Unless you are a very large company a CDN is not something you can realistically build and run in house.

[rocqua → gilbertbw]

If you are not a very large company, you might not need the full functionality of a very large CDN either.

Now, building the functionality you require can still be unrealistic to build yourself. One thing that springs to mind is DDoS protection.

[aliasEli → rocqua]

When your site can expect visitors from all around the world you need a CDN that also has a world wide presence. Using a CDN can have a pretty big impact on the performance of your site, and it is well known that users avoid sites that are slow.

[doublerabbit → rocqua]

Colocation is cheap. But your correct with DDoS; that is the only thing I am not prepared for. I will forever go with colocation.

1Gbit is nothing nowadays and can be saturated in seconds; my purposes do not justify the cost of 10g transit. Even owning 4U when I only need a VPS is overkill. But I like owning a small dusty cube of internet. So there's that.