Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic

Hosting shit has become too expensive, and the ads will generate less and less revenue, as it’s mostly bots generating clicks and views. This is changing the internet at an incredible pace.

The worst is that any attempt to create a place free of bots will only become a target for LLM companies to gather clean training data.

Hosting has never been so inexpensive as it is today.

There seems to be two groups of people:

People that use services like AWS and pay hundreds (or more) per month: “Wow, hosting is so expensive now!”

People that host a bunch of stuff on a $40/year VPS: “Wow, hosting is so cheap now!”

I’ve got several VPSes with 40Gbps (shared) networking, 8 or 16GB RAM, decent amount of space on RAIDed enterprise NVMe SSDs, fast AMD EPYC CPUs, that cost less than $60/year. 20 years ago before VPS hosting became popular, you’d need to pay at least $100/month for a dedicated server with a consumer CPU, single IDE hard drive, tiny amount of RAM, on a 100Mb/s connection.

Not to mention being able to host a bunch of stuff at home for cheap with a low-power single-board or mini PC., and Hetzner making dedicated servers very cheap too.

I use cloudflare for free. You guys pay for hosting?

Yes, because a Linux server with root access is much more powerful than a platform like Cloudflare.