A New Future for Icanhazip

Wow so this person has been running this site for so many years, paying bills, answering god knows how many idiots and even getting close to trouble with 3 letter agencies and senators for absolutely nothing.. hats off to you sir, any other person would have thrown in the towel a long time ago.

Also i feel little bad you didn't get any money out of it whether the site was designed to make money or not. It would have been a wonderful end to the story if you got something back for all the years of hardwork you put into running it. You do have my appreciation if that means anything though.

P.S. this story is very similar to rawgit which was a wonderful site but also fell prey to malware aholes.

> Also i feel little bad you didn't get any money out of I

Most likely it got them a much higher paying job than they would have otherwise gotten. Walking in and saying you single handedly run a site with billions of requests per day and petabytes of traffic will get you noticed.

Major didn't need icanhazip.com to get a good paying and quality job, this man is legend (at RAX when working with him)

He hasn't updated this for a while, but it gives you a good picture of the kind of guy Major is: https://majorhayden.com/

RHCA(rchitect)

That cert is no joke.

RHCA(dminstrator) is a great cert to get (not super difficult but not super easy, but like all RH certs you need to actually know the material).

RHCE is awesome to have, and a good bit harder than RHCAdministrator. But when I grow up I want RHCArchitect...

The certs are more just to tick some checkboxes when working with certain enterprise clients (my guess).

I hate certs, but if you want in on certain projects, it doesn't hurt to have the desired certs, especially if you can get your employer to foot the bill.

Anyways, knowing him personally, I can attest he's a really good dev and wholesome person. Sad to see this site get bogged down with malicious activity, because like downforeveryoneorjustme, I kind of have it committed to muscle memory. Hope CloudFlare can keep it going strong!

The certs prove you have the knowledge, so you don't have to boast. I've only got one certificate (AWS generic one), and I underestimated how much you need to study for things like that. I mean that was more of a nice to have, I don't actually have aspirations to go into AWS or the "ops" side of things, I just felt like it was something I needed to know more about.