Saidit is expanding from 1 server to 3 servers

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[–][deleted] 12 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

Holy shit I think saidit might revive IRC back from the dead (if saidit gets more popular). Thanks for opening it up to external servers.

Whats the 3rd server for? Just a backup?

[–]magnora7[S] 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 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.

[–]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