I know, if you search, you’re bound to find an opinion that matches yours, and pretty quickly, too.
Bhagwad Park (in either Ontario or Florida—I assume one of the addresses on his site hasn’t been updated) happens to agree with me about AWS, except he breaks things down far better, being an expert on web hosting and server admin.
The highlights (original emphasis):
For all its benefits, Amazon AWS makes website hosting more complicated than it should be for a regular business owner …
All the moving parts associated with Amazon AWS make my website fragile. It increases the number of things that can go wrong …
As a business owner, I loathe complexity in my technology.
The fact I had to go through half a dozen techs to get our sites off AWS says a lot, and that took years to do. It’s a minefield and not for SMEs. You need a full IT team. And even then I’m not sure if it’s the best way forward. It really is a horribly designed mess.
And this might be just one review, but it seems internally it’s not the best place to work, either.
After two to three months, Automattic finally acted on the DMCA reports I sent them. Strangely, the pages were removed after a friend of mine who works for them began enquiring. They were gone the day after he emailed me. The timing is very convenient, and I am grateful to see two pirate pages gone. I wonder if anything would have happened if my friend didn’t snoop around for me.
What is interesting is that he tells me the majority of DMCA reports they receive are bogus. That’s a real shame since the process is a pretty good one and doesn’t cost parties much to resolve disputes. Call me naïve: I didn’t expect a majority would abuse the law.
In my opinion, the DMCA procedure is still the correct way to get copyrighted content off the web, even if US companies are beginning to ignore their own laws. It involves time, but then you don’t wind up attacking legitimate people who might, for instance, use a quotation of yours under fair use or fair dealing. Treat others the way you wish to be treated yourself. Everything we run is, to our knowledge, licensed properly, and if we erred, then it’s easy to solve, too. The obvious bots and pirates will quickly find themselves in our cross-hairs—as the Automattic client was—but most are left alone. It can’t be hard to tell who’s legitimate—and what falls outside statutory limitations.
Google, meanwhile, has yet to remove a page that they themselves agree has violated copyright. They said ‘soon’ a few months ago but things happen slowly with Big Tech. So: Automattic doesn’t respond but does act; Google responds but doesn’t.
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