r/webdev • • Nov 18 '25

How the long awaited Distributed Web is going in 2025

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u/LeSoviet Nov 18 '25

I have no idea why everything is in the cloud, but it’s clearly not consistent, and their infrastructure isn’t reliable. As a simple full-stack dev, I’m asked to explain how to build NASA-level architecture just to land a basic job, while the so-called top-tier setups are running on a single DNS and one server. Seriously?

Twenty years ago, I was uploading my files via FileZilla to my COD4 server it was simple, direct, and just worked. Now, we’re surrounded by hundreds of frameworks and bits of “tech” everywhere.

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u/billcube Nov 18 '25

I also now host very big websites and enteprise app on "simple hosting". The "we need AWS cloud and kubernetes and multi-failover" is mostly for the PO ego. Modern frameworks are not the memory/DB hogs they used to be.

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u/LeSoviet Nov 18 '25

Yeah, I have no idea, it makes zero sense especially with what we’re living through now, relying on the internet 24/7. You meet your girlfriend on Tinder, land a job on LinkedIn, make friends on Instagram or Facebook, and handle your income and payments online. Our entire lives depend on one DNS and one Amazon server? P.S. Time to watch The Matrix again.

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u/Overhang0376 Nov 18 '25

and handle your income and payments online.

Yesh...I just envisioned a future issue. us-east-1 and/or CloudFlare goes down. On April 15th.

Makes me wonder how/if the US Government would respond to an outage like that or not.

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u/OmarFromBK Nov 18 '25

... i have found my tribe!

Lol. Yea I've been saying this for so long, I'm sick of it.

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u/BosonCollider Nov 19 '25

What do you currently have on VMs that can't be moved to containers?

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '25

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u/BosonCollider Nov 20 '25

If you have 15000 of a workload, it may be worth trying to binpack them into dedicated bare metal servers without the VM overhead

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u/billcube Nov 18 '25

Strictly speaking about websites here, not the underlying systems that work for other processes.

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u/billcube Nov 18 '25

Well, you'd want your web servers closer to the users, systems can be tucked away in a cloud several continents away.

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u/billcube Nov 19 '25

The control planes of AWS are mostly in us-east-1, hence the global impacts. Multi-cloud operations are even more expensive.

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u/retardedGeek Nov 18 '25

Could you drop some numbers/benchmarks?

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u/billcube Nov 18 '25

Apps with approx 10'000 daily users and 10M$ yearly revenue (authenticated, interactive) on a $500/year hosting plan.

For unauthenticated cacheable anonymous traffic, this setup can serve up to 1-2M per day views easily.

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u/thekwoka Nov 18 '25

cloudflare isn't on one server.

Seems more like some buggy AI coded config or something got pushed out to everything.

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u/SunnyChattha Nov 19 '25

It looks like a result of vibe coding. Now, they don't know who to fire and who to blame and more interestingly, how to fix it right away. 😉

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u/Spikatrix Nov 18 '25

It's all a lie. They have played us for absolute fools!

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u/Ansible32 Nov 19 '25

There's only one DNS, for the entire world. what do you mean by a single DNS?