Worst DDOS attack in saidit's history blocked 6 hours ago

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That is a pretty bad way, as there are actually countless international hosting providers outside the GCP/AWS/DO, and even more national ones.

He should be more vary of the actual danger.

[–]yellow_algebra_31 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

hm. it seemed like gab had a lot of trouble with this though. are you sure it's not something to worry about and prepare against?

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Of course it's something to prepare against.
I'm just saying, preparation should not be hard - if you don't believe me, you can easily find many storage providers in relatively "safe" countries, this being one example I found after a quick search.

[–]yellow_algebra_31 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why did gab have a difficult time with it then? Was stuff like this not available a few years ago? I guess gab didn't go down for very long but it seemed like there was somewhat of a struggle and they were extremely grateful to find a company willing to host them when they did. I didn't follow all the details but that's what I remember.

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Well, they were likely unprepared, hence the downtime.
I see now that they briefly went down around the end of October 2018, but if it was an actual challenge, they'd go down for far longer.