Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own servers
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Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own servers
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#2I can’t help but find the introductory quote a bit much, given that Parler’s moderation scheme (judgement by other Parler users) typically resulted in the removal of all opinions other than those held by the majority of Parler users.
In any case, Parler’s problem (well, one problem of many) was that they had MASSIVE hardware requirements that dramatically cut down on the number of places that could practically host them.
It also seems that despite assurances and good sense, Parler had deeply tied itself to Amazon’s APIs, making migration off AWS slow even once a host was found.
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#3Very likely many isps whitelist speedtest.net to show amazing speeds.
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#4I grew up in an era where running your own servers was just generally accepted practice.
It's been fascinating watching how dramatically that viewpoint has shifted over the years to the point where it is now a novel idea to do so.
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#5Very likely many isps whitelist speedtest.net to show amazing speeds.
That’s why you also check Fast.com - it’s on Netflix’s servers, so you can’t whitelist Fast without also whitelisting Netflix.
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#7I grew up in an era where running your own servers was just generally accepted practice. It's been fascinating watching how dramatically that viewpoint has shifted over the years to the point where it is now a novel idea to do so.
I switched my personal website to a Raspberry Pi 4 in my basement a while ago, with cloudflare caching and roll-your-own DDNS - I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how easy the whole thing was to do (although my requirements are far from exotic).
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#8Does there exist a de-platform proof way of hosting something on the internet?
Even if you host your own server on your own premises they could forbid you from using the location, shut off your electricity, etc.
Is it possible to host a website entirely on bittorrent? I suppose there's also IPFS but I'm not entirely familiar.
Maybe once solar is cheap enough you could launch some sort of array of powered drones into the sky that follow the sun that send files to people via P2P - solar mesh network if you will.
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#9It's kinda funny that apart from the headline this post is a typical circa 2005 tutorial on how to run your own large volume website cheaply.
Re: Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own servers
#10Very likely many isps whitelist speedtest.net to show amazing speeds.
That’s why you also check Fast.com - it’s on Netflix’s servers, so you can’t whitelist Fast without also whitelisting Netflix.
Surely it'd be trivial to increase the user's speed to Netflix servers if they've visited Fast.com in the last three minutes or similar?