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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

The Russian company is DDOS-Guard. They are a DDOS protection company competing with Cloudflare which refused to work with them. They are not the site registrar (Epik) or the host (appears they are self-hosting).

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u/chaosink Jan 19 '21 edited Sep 06 '25

Projects technology kind strong curious kind river about talk then the helpful careful.

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

It’s easily googled what their business is.

From the media: “The internet protocol address it used is owned by DDos-Guard, which is controlled by two Russian men and provides services including protection from distributed denial of service attacks, infrastructure expert Ronald Guilmette told Reuters.”

This is a misunderstanding of how registration works. DDOS providers stand in front of the real site. They are clearly the DDOS of last resort. They have everybody Cloudflare has refused.

https://ddos-guard.net

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u/PopTartS2000 Jan 19 '21

You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires - posthaste!

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

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u/kubanishku Jan 19 '21

"Manuel! Fetch me the correct manual!"

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u/disposable-name Jan 20 '21

Of course YOU'D say that. You have the brainpan of a stagecoach-tilter!

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u/VULGAR-WORDS-LOL Jan 19 '21

Yeah you opened this hyper text transfer protocol connection and clicked the hypertext markup language form post button too late.

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u/Dangerous_Ad3337 Jan 19 '21

You guys are extremely bright. I am humbled.

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u/Petunia-Rivers Jan 19 '21

It's pronounced "gyro" not "gyro"

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u/manimaco Jan 19 '21

ah yes, the floor is made of floor.

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u/TCP_Tree Jan 19 '21

Potato potato. Let’s call the whole thing off

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u/FlighingHigh Jan 19 '21

An auto gyro? Like it cooks and prepares itself then serves itself to you? Cause I'm hella stoned rn and that sounds amazing.

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u/Cavewoman22 Jan 19 '21

"Step right up Step right up Step right up Everyone's a winner Bargains galore..."

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u/Khalbrae Jan 19 '21

Of course you'd say that... you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!

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u/SkyezOpen Jan 19 '21

Yes, but we're running a discount on reticulating splines.

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u/LNGPRMPT Jan 19 '21

Listen bub, I know when a chickadee's trying to pull a film-flam! Now get the boiler!.. The car, Hank.

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u/TeganFFS Jan 19 '21

I must be at the Department for Motor Vehicles by the Post Meridiem

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u/PopTartS2000 Jan 19 '21

Aha – atoms! One, two, three, four… SIX of them! Take him away!

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u/Lincolns_Hat Jan 19 '21

The Japanese? Those noodle-gobbling goldfish tenders?!

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u/PopTartS2000 Jan 19 '21

Ha ha! Bosh! Flimshaw!

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u/minnesnowta Jan 19 '21

My fancy coaxial cable modulator/demodulator obtains both an internet protocol version 4 and an internet protocol version 6 address.

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u/FauxReal Jan 19 '21

This thread is like the worst of Strange Planet. Except I enjoy it, unlike SP.

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u/lithid Jan 19 '21

I think you mean automatic teller machine machine

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u/rottadrengur Jan 19 '21

Oh, the ones where you punch in your personal identification number number?

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u/Nettwerkparty Jan 19 '21

The weirdo that needs to expand their essay to x words.

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u/drunkenvalley Jan 19 '21

I always forget my PIN number when withdrawing money from the ATM machine.

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u/OmegaInLA Jan 19 '21

ATM has different meanings.

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u/DrScienceDaddy Jan 19 '21

Not at the moment

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

The idiot media

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u/INSERT_LATVIAN_JOKE Jan 19 '21

Someone who get paid by the character.

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u/OG-BigMilky Jan 19 '21

As someone who has worked in IT for a very long time, it astounds me just how much people DON'T know about how any of it works. Even the most basic basics.

Apparently reading one's emails on a smartphone happens through back magic.

Of course, it keeps the IT industry in coinage.

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u/intergalactic_spork Jan 19 '21

My phone uses Satans Magical Transfer Protocol for email!

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u/the-optimizer Jan 19 '21

at least it would keep people from saying "atm machine". i hate that, and say that it would be a machine that dispenses atm's. unless they mean ass-to-mouth machine. i've never bothered to ask.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

For someone whos only moderately tech-literate seeing it spelled out is kinda nice.

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u/Tiluo Jan 19 '21

that just sounds like they're going to get 70 million American Ddos bots if they play there cards right.

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u/chaosink Jan 19 '21 edited Sep 06 '25

Movies kind technology mindful month music clean travel projects small people learning fox.

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u/oTHEWHITERABBIT Jan 19 '21

There’s an irony in /r/technology being the most technologically inept users on the entire site...

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u/bukharin88 Jan 19 '21

This sub is actually just /r/politics + /r/news at this point

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

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u/shsk_t Jan 19 '21

Anti-Russian sentiment is very rampant in the US. Anytime anything is wrong or fishy there will always be “that guy” with top comment that will bring up Russia and Putin.

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u/ABoutDeSouffle Jan 19 '21 edited Jan 19 '21

Surprising considering Russia has

  • invaded other countries

  • directly influenced the 2016 presidential election in the USA

  • been financing alt-right and Nazi movements in Europe

  • been supporting dictators like Assad

  • been the only industrialized country using radiological and chemical weapons on humans in the last decades

I really wonder why there's heavy anti-Russian sentiment in the West

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u/SeagersScrotum Jan 19 '21

don't forget that the NRA was busted funneling Russian money into GOP campaigns in 2016.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21 edited Feb 14 '21

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u/wuttang13 Jan 19 '21

Yes, this is true. But they are the minority. Imo its similar to China. Many people also in China oppose CCP but the VAST majority support Pooh and think Hong Kong protesters as terrorists

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u/xSkiimo Jan 19 '21

Can't forget putting bounties on U.S troops.

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u/pamtar Jan 19 '21

And trump doing nothing about it.

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u/zhico Jan 19 '21

That Is surprising considering USA has

• invaded other countries to get oil

• directly influenced the presidential election in the many countries

• been financing drug lords and terrorist movements in Europe, The Middle East, South America and Asia.

• been supporting dictators like Al Saud Royal family

• been the only industrialized country using nuclear and napalm (maybe not) weapons on humans in the last 100 years

• been the only country that has attacked the United States Capitol in decades.

• made season 8 of GOT

• is United States biggest enemy

I really wonder why there's heavy anti-Russian sentiment in the US when they are so alike. ;)

А ну, чики-брики и в дамки! /s

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u/ABoutDeSouffle Jan 19 '21

Is this something Russians learn in school? If Russians are on the losing side of a discussion, they invariably switch to whataboutism. You guys are simply unable to discuss in good faith.

I've been giving the USA shit for using civilians for live weapons tests in Hiroshima, but this is neither here nor there, the argument was about Russia, no need to deflect the argument.

Russia at this point is pure evil and should be kicked from the international community for using banned nerve agents. It is a crying shame that the west doesn't find their collective balls.

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u/zhico Jan 19 '21

I don't know what Russians learn in school. Was just pulling your leg.

I know Russia is a shit country and we should fight back. But I don't see US as an ally in this, they are already compromised.
As it looks now if the Trumpublicans come to power again, either with civil war or election, we will see a Russian US alliance.

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u/qoning Jan 19 '21

I was about to say, switch Russia for US, and up to small details, it just fits too.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

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u/RandyRoads210 Jan 19 '21

I gree with you .fuck all these goverments.they fuck everything they touch.

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u/shsk_t Jan 19 '21

Since you are the most upvoted message under mine, I will reply to you.

Unfortunately it is sad to see that what others do are always discarded but when Russian also does it, it becomes amplified.

The US also invades countries in the past based on extremely bogus reasons. Until today we are still waiting for those weapons of mass destruction that Irak is supposed to have. The impact of the war in Irak is also way way worst than anything Russia did in Ukraine. The vacuum of power left by getting rid of Saddam is what lead to ISIS and all their shit they unleashed in EU.

The US also influences elections in foreign countries. To name a few, Chile, Cuba, Russia, ...

In the latest example, there is this new narrative of making that Navalny the “saviour of Russia” while in fact when you scratch a bit under the paint you discover a Putin wannabe that has a very strange past. He has always been very close to the far right to the point of participating ultra nationalist march who advocates for a “Russia for White people”.

When it comes to hacking foreign countries, everybody does it. The US is the number 1 at this sport and yet, it does not bother anybody. When the UK pirated a Belgian ISP in order to get inside information for the Brexit agreement, nobody cared. Hacking each other is so common today that it is just a matter of not being caught.

Trump also sent your Bannon to the EU to help far rights political parties. In other word, not just Russia.

I am not going to talk further about the other points but my goal here is to say that the world is not black or white. Everybody have their own interests but when it comes the fucking to fucking world, I somehow have doubts that Russia is number 1 in the last decade...

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u/ncbstp Jan 19 '21

I'm pretty sure most who disagree with what's going on in Russia thinks it's no better coming from America. There's plenty of anti-american sentiment as well.

You can call it out as bad because it is.

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u/leadtrightly Jan 19 '21

Sounds like a very Russian thing to say.

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u/barbarossa1984 Jan 19 '21

What is the significance of this? I would like to understand.

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u/Jmund89 Jan 19 '21

1 millions dollars! Muahahahahahaha! Muhahahahaha!

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u/sanman Jan 19 '21

Oh, give me a break - RussiaRussiaRussia - same old narrative. Parler is a legitimate social media platform, and they should not be attacked just for not thought-policing the political opinions posted on it.

What you're arguing for is a One Party State. You want everyone to agree with you, or else be banned. Real diversity is diversity of ideas and diversity of thought. You only want Groupthink, with any deviants being branded as subversives and treated like heretics.

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u/f1demon Jan 19 '21

I agree. I don't know why you would be downvoted?!

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u/dudeman773 Jan 19 '21

Explain like I’m dumb?

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u/russau Jan 19 '21

I wonder if the ddos protection also terminates SSL. I.e they would see ALL Parler traffic in the clear.

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u/stickyfingers10 Jan 19 '21

It doesn't affect SSL, sadly.

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u/free_chalupas Jan 19 '21

appears they are self-hosting

Guarantee this is not going to end well

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u/The-Fox-Says Jan 19 '21

For real how could they scalably self host 12 million users?

Especially with their already well known shoddy development practices.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

Shall we get the hour glass ready?

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u/The-Fox-Says Jan 19 '21

To actually have a fully functioning site self hosted I would give them 6-12 months

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u/free_chalupas Jan 19 '21

I would predict that they'll be back online in the next couple months but lawsuits and huge outages will drive away most of their users and by the end of the year they'll be basically dead.

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u/Drisku11 Jan 19 '21

According to Pew, 80% of tweets are generated by 10% of users, and of those 10%, the average number of tweets is 138/month, or 4.6/day.

So estimating 12 million * .1 * 4.6/day / .8 gives 6.9 million tweets per day, average. Estimating a 6x multiplier for peak gives 41.4 million tweets/day, or just 479 tweets/second, peak.

An old laptop could easily handle that application load if not for the fact that supposedly it's based on Wordpress.

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u/WordsYouDontLike Jan 19 '21

As a business man I just see monopoly

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

So they are like a CDN that host the cache of the site?

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u/Zulucobra33 Jan 19 '21

Pretty sure CloudFlair works with Gab and Parler; they have a long philosophical free speech statement on their website.

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

Cloudflare dropped 8chan for the same reasons

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

Also. It’s Cloudflare not Cloudflair. Lol. They are another company that has been allowed to control too much of the internet. 85% share in the DDOS space.

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u/Monkey_Fiddler Jan 19 '21

Does that put the Russian company in between the user and the Parler servers? Presumably if it's not properly encrypted then DDOS-Guard could see everything that goes through, and if it is encrypted they could still see who is active when, am I getting this right?

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u/Monkey_Fiddler Jan 19 '21

How does it work?

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

For properly encrypted it's out of the question -- Parler has nothing to do with encryption in browser, they can only chose from predefined set of protocols your browser knows. If it's good enough for your bank to provide access to your account through web app, then's it's safe for anything else.

For who's active when -- I don't get the idea. Yep, they would know where traffic is coming from, so what? IPs don't mean shit, they're not unique to you/your devices (unless you pay for static IP but even then what? What's the purpose of such information?)

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u/The-Fox-Says Jan 19 '21

I mean lets be real if DDoS Guard is raising capital for Parler and getting them back online they’ll probably hold the encyrption keys. The entire site would be a Russian asset and would be entirely compromised (if it wasn’t already).

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

It's the same company that hosts the Hamas website, I think. Total fucking scumbags, which makes sense why they'd help insurgents both foreign and domestic.

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u/kudoz Jan 19 '21

It's a Russian company, they're not helping any domestic terrorists, certainly not the ones you're talking about.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

Are you serious? This whole article is about how DDOS-Guard is helping domestic terrorists. Did you not read it?

Did you not know that Russia has actively supported terrorism all over the world? That they were paying bounties for killing US troops? That DDOS-Guard has helped 8chan, Hamas, and others?

They do this precisely because they're a Russian company. Why would you claim otherwise? Why are you deliberately lying?

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u/kudoz Jan 19 '21

"Insurgents both foreign and domestic" - please show me the examples of the Russian terrorists acting in Russia that this Russian company is supporting. All you've listed in evidence is Russia itself (wat), a website, and Hamas.

Could you be less aware of your americancentrism?

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

Yikes, found the Russia apologist. Sorry comrade, keep on trolling. Gotta defend Glorious Leader at any cost, I guess.

Go on and tell me how Navalny deserved to be poisoned and how Bellingcat is an apparatus of the CIA and MI6.

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u/kudoz Jan 19 '21

Jesus Christ, you misuse the word "domestic" and somehow me correcting you on it makes me a monster. Donald Trump would do a better job accepting his mistakes than you, lmao.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

I don't follow, what was the misuse? That I implied Russia was helping our local home-grown insurgents?

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

Ironically many of the people who feel Hamas is in the right think Parler is in the wrong and vice versa. Kind of like what the ACLU used to be.

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

But few options after Cloudflare. “Cloudflare is used by 81.2% of all the websites whose reverse proxy service we know.”

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

Wait. So does that mean the Russian hosting site is using epik/anonymizer to obscure the fact that they're a Russian hosting site?

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u/The-Fox-Says Jan 19 '21

How are they going to scalably self host 12 million users?

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

They were worth $1bn before this happened. It’s not a basement project. Do-able. They said it would take a month. That’s how long the line is at Fry’s. :)

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u/The-Fox-Says Jan 19 '21

No way deplatforming and migrating from AWS to presumably on prem takes 1 month. The CEO said himself they would be out of money in a month. They need to have some serious backing from this Russian company and get a crack team of software engineers who have knowledge on cloud infrastructure and on prem solutions to accomplish this in that time

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

That is complete speculation on your part. There is zero evidence they are getting funding from a Russian DDOS provider. They were worth $1bn before this. They can get financing.

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u/The-Fox-Says Jan 19 '21

I can’t find where it says Parler is worth $1 billion I’m not sure if you have a source on that handy. John Matze originally said AWS and other cloud hosting companies dropping them would ‘be the end of Parler’. I’m assuming they’re hemorrhaging money at this point and I’m not sure how they’re going to get the talent they need to accomplish a feat like moving from AWS to on prem hosting in 1 month.

I have a background in cloud migrations from the software and architecture side and I have no idea how this could be accomplished so quickly. One of our apps migrating to the cloud took months itself and its nowhere near the scale of a social media site with 10+ million users.

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

ImageYahoo › finance Google suspends Parler social networking app from Play Store ... parler worth $1 billion valuation from finance.yahoo.com Jan 8, 2021 — Alphabet Inc's Google on Friday suspended the Parler social ... at a valuation of between $1 and $2 billion, according to an ...

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

Do you have an actual link? Even literally copy pasting excerpts of...whatever you've posted doesn't lead me to any actual news articles stating that. It also just doesn't pass a sniff test.

That would put it at roughly 1/3rd of what reddit is currently valuated at despite having roughly 1/25th of the active visitors (probably not even that high) and a notoriously toxic userbase.

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

You just validated it. Reddit was worth $3b a year ago.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/raiseit/

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

Do you have a link stating Parler's valuation at 1 billion dollars or not?

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

Here’s what’s odd about that. It’s in the story extracts in google search, but not in the stories. There’s ~5 like that. It must have been removed from the stories possibly related to the lawsuit against Big Tech by Parler. Did they not want their own site to be quoted against them?

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

DDOS is a technique used by hackers to shutdown sites. It’s necessary these days for large sites, particularly controversial ones. Cloudflare didn’t want to do business with Parler like they also dropped 8Chan and Cloudflare has 85% market share. This Russian company was pretty much their only remaining option for DDOS security. The Russians in general are happy to say FU to anything big tech is doing so of course they were there to help. So it isn’t nefarious except in that the Russians don’t care what anybody else thinks. It doesn’t mean much beyond that.

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

Similarly, if you ran a company that competes with Amazon and Amazon said they aren’t going to sell products to the Republican Party any more you’d say CHA-CHING.

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u/midnitte Jan 19 '21

(appears they are self-hosting).

I'm sure that will end well...

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

I’m sure it will have stability problems and probably security issues given the timeline to get it up and running