Saidit is expanding from 1 server to 3 servers

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[–]magnora7[S] 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

There is the main server, which has most everything.

Then there is the irc server, which will be at irc.saidit.net

Then 3rd server will act as a proxy server for the main server for media content. It will also host thelounge, which is our IRC chat software that runs in-page

This will protect us by compartmentalizing the different functions, as well as providing necessary proxy services which mask our IP.

We'd love to help IRC make a comeback.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Thanks for the explanation.

[–]magnora7[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

No problem, d3rr and I just spent the last hour outlining this design and we think it's a good one

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Does saidit support image hosting?

Also wouldnt it be cool if saidit could crawl image links and save them to the 3rd server?

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

We are working on an image upload system that is paired with imgur, but it might be a couple weeks, we've got a lot on our plate right now

[–]bobbobbybob 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

DUDE~!!!!!!

have you not heard of OPSEC?

I seriously hope that you are lying as misdirection. You don't tell people your backend config in a public channel. You've just handed the next bad actor a script.

[–]magnora7[S] 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This level of explanation isn't too revealing, and our users deserve transparency as many of their donations paid for our servers, so they deserve to know what they're paying for.

[–]gretathroatborg 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

imagine being such a faggot that you think security through obscurity is a thing. if anything they should publish detailed architectural docs so sec researchers that use the site could evaluate it

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah, everyone should reveal all their secrets

[–]Jonwilkon 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

just curious what is the port for irc.saidit.net ? I am use to seeing the port following a : after the server. ex: irc.saidit.net:xxxx

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It doesn't exist yet, but when it does we will announce the port and other settings. Thanks for your patience

[–]gretathroatborg 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

any way to have the main server fully proxied? meaning no clients connecting directly to it for anything. then it can run from a private vlan on non-routable address and the servers that proxy to it (for media and 'most everything') protect it from being open to ddos attacks. how do you mitigate ddos? if not in the networking gear/upstream then the proxy servers will do double duty of regular server job and also rejecting ddos traffic with dynamically updated firewall rules

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is basically what the new setup will be, more or less

[–]gretathroatborg 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

good stuff. if u run into problems in the future pm me