Our Switzerland server CPU is now upgraded! App is now enabled again

submitted by magnora7[A] from self.SaidIt

I think we are now settled in, the saidit server should be working fast for everyone now. The app is now turned back on again because our CPU in Switzerland can finally handle it. Sorry to everyone who was unable to access saidit through the android app for the last 24 hours. I think it's all sorted now.

This CPU upgrade did bump up our server cost, from $54 to $84 per month. I'm paying the additional cost out of pocket, so if people want to donate, it would help.

You can donate via the saidit Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/SaidIt

Or if you prefer cryptocurrency, we have many donation options here: https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/jf/cryptocurrency_support_for_saiditnet/

Thank you to everyone who has already donated to help saidit!

And thank you to everyone for your patience during this move to Switzerland. Now we should be settled in for the long haul. Everything should be stable from now on. Let us know in the comments how the servers are working for you.

all 25 comments
sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun

[–]HibikiBlack 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's running great for me. Thanks for everything Magnora. Having a site where you can use actual logic to share your points of view is really refreshing.

[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Glad to hear it! We're glad to be back on a solid footing.

[–]Riva 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Great job all! I hate Reddit with a passion that I only vaguely remember from hating digg.

Keep it up.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks! Glad to see another former digg user. :)

[–][deleted]  (5 children)

[deleted]

    [–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Basically we went from 2 cores to 4 cores. That gives us enough power to keep up with the requests as they arrive.

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

    I agree. Any tips on how to speed up login from the US would be helpful. It takes longer than it used to.

    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    US login should be instant. Are you using the desktop or the app?

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

    Desktop using Chrome. Login was faster today. So, it may have been some Internet nonsense in the US.

    Thanks.

    [–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Cool, thanks for the report and glad to hear it's working better now.

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

    Search and Chat are now enabled again too

    [–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Awesome, nice work

    [–]Enviro 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    I'm flying dude. Enjoy my shitposts with some thought.

    [–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

    Why am I not seeing this? My android app is still connecting to cloudfare servers in the United States at ip addresses; - 104.31.88.85 - 104.31.89.85

    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

    What aren't you seeing?

    [–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

    Not seeing connection to servers outside the US. Also I notice the app is making secondary, insecure connections (not https) to those same two ip addresses. So

    • 104.31.88.85:443
    • 104.31.89.85:443
    • 104.31.88.85:80
    • 104.31.89.85:80

    Also these two fastly.net servers

    • 151.101.204.193:443
    • 151.101.56.193:443

    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

    Yes it connects to cloudflare first before connecting to the swiss server, so this is expected behavior. It's a middle layer that can be disabled at any time

    [–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

    But you do realise that means the Swiss server is not providing any added privacy for saidit users because in that respect cloudflare is a man in the middle enabling surveillance of all traffic to and from the saidit servers.

    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

    It provides tons of extra privacy to be hosted in switzerland. But yes cloudflare does have access to all IPs going through it. That's true for 90% of websites.

    [–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

    "It provides tons of extra privacy to be hosted in switzerland."

    How?

    1. My device establishes an encrypted https connection to the cloudflare server.
    2. When cloudflare receives that data, their end of that https protocol connection decrypts the data.
    3. Cloudflare now has the plaintext. They know what was sent, who sent it, the ip address it came from and probably a lot more than that.
    4. Cloudfare server now creates an https connection to the saidit server. Data is re-encrypted and sent to saidit server.

    Privacy might only exist by direct connection to saidit servers but of course the intel agencies would use DDOS weapons to attack that setup to force you to choose the "protection" their cloud computing system offers.

    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    It protects us legally, not technologically. Either way, we'd be using a DDOS service

    [–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    Ddos == distributed denial of service. It is a coordinated attack using thousands of compromised network devices that is used to take down internet servers by overwhelming them with bogus traffic. For example, millions of attempts per second to log in with random false credentials.

    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    Yes. We've had several DDOS attacks, and that's why we need to cloudflare to defend against them.