Rented-land risk: platforms break things your business depends on

Apple broke an essential iPad presentation feature, and the comment section turned it into a case against using an iPad instead of a computer. In older threads resurfacing today, Cloudflare's anti-bot checks block Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers, Spain's La Liga football blocks knocked out Docker pulls, Slack closed its IRC and XMPP gateways, and Stripe and Google Cloud have frozen accounts with little warning. A separate AWS thread shows a billing bug sending users estimates in the billions, with one hobbyist seeing $286 million.

The common thread is dependence on a single vendor whose incentives and bugs you cannot see or fix. Commenters keep recommending multi-provider setups, domain portability, and open protocols.

Counterpoint: several readers note that the hard-to-reach support wall is the actual cost, not the outage itself.