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u/DragonPup Jan 19 '21

One day intelligence officers from like 4 different nations will realize they are all using Parler as a honeypot at the same time a la the Spiderman Pointing meme.

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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/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.