If you add additional piece to chain, chain becomes weaker, not stronger
> get AI-DoSed
Thats not that common. There are specific industries prone to DDoS, like gaming, but your average site don't get DDoS-ed. Then again CF free service really don't protect your site from DDoS. I have seen several times CF becoming source of DoS (not caching or denying malicious requests) and if back-end is on shared infra, CF goes to firewall.
That name NDP looks little bit confusing. For example, wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbor_Discovery_Protocol shows NDP as Neighbor Discovery Protocol, even when RFC-s themselves don't use that abbreviation.
Yes, it was a poor choice of name. It was originally just a placeholder in the htsim code, from New Datacenter Protocol, but we avoided choosing a better name for too long and had already talked about it as NDP to enough people (especially research funding people) that we decided it would be confusing to change. With hindsight, we should have changed it earlier. Later on we did change the name of its derivative to EQDS.
That article had weird statement about PCI-X: "It did not see wide use with PCs, likely because Intel chose not to give the technology its blessing, but was briefly utilized by the Power Macintosh G5 line of computers."
I don't know, what they meant with blessing, but Intel server motherboards had PCI-X slots and this was common bus for servers/workstations. Mostly used by SCSI and RAID controllers, high-end network adapters.
The bit before it mentions it being designed for high-end workstations and servers, i.e. not PCs, but I do agree that it seems to imply Intel never used it at all, rather than rather the standard wasn't used in PCs (Intel or otherwise).
Putting on my "postmaster at shared hosting company" hat:
Used to be. Gmail is done lot of work to be worse than Outlook. At least MS idiosyncraties are somewhat known and stable. I would say that most customer complaints are related to gmail.
FWIW that has not been my experience with hosting my own personal mail. The only deliverability issue I had with Gmail was with a newly registered domain and even then they did at least deliver the mails to the spam folder (and soon enough directly to the inbox) which is much more than Microsoft does.
I have a small sample size but for my SaaS which primarily sends email GMail marked as spam for a while but then gained domain trust and it hasn't been a notable issue. Outlook has my IP on a blacklist and doesn't even consider anything else. I need to send via relays to get an IP that is trusted enough for Outlook to even consider my message (which is signed with DKIM + SPF with a DMARC reject policy)
What OP means by cloud provider? Cloud is overused term.
That said, we have Hezner, OVH and Scaleway.
You can ask other way: why US don't have cheap well known bare metal provider.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. If you start with their earliest work, like "The Land of Crimson Clouds", you can get vibe, how communist Sci-Fi looked. If you read later stuff, like "Tale of the Troika", then you get story humorously criticizing soviet bureaucracy. Then there is pretty serious stuff, like "The Doomed City" or "Ugly Swans". You probably know "Roadside Picnic" - this interpretations in films and gaming are known as "Stalker".
In the last few years some Usenet providers are closed their doors. Aioe.org was pretty popular and known, disappeared this year. One of few ISP-s still offering Usenet access for clients, Finnish Elisa, closed their usenet server 2021.
Russian neva.ru was sadly closed (probably forced by goverment) 2021 (I group it with free servers, because it had read-only access open for everyone and some point allowed posting). Albasani.net disappeared 2020.
Some free servers are still around, but don't offer public accounts.
Few places give account, if you ask.
Eternal September is strongest-biggest still running and free service. Mixmin allows anonymous posting, but sometimes restricts it to fight with abuse.
Google still relays groups to Usenet, though they have their own thing going and some servers are blocking posts from google.
If you add additional piece to chain, chain becomes weaker, not stronger
> get AI-DoSed
Thats not that common. There are specific industries prone to DDoS, like gaming, but your average site don't get DDoS-ed. Then again CF free service really don't protect your site from DDoS. I have seen several times CF becoming source of DoS (not caching or denying malicious requests) and if back-end is on shared infra, CF goes to firewall.
> will have an expired cert.
Your back-end still needs certificate