If I ever get the urge to host a website I don't want to support bad people.
Who out there is a good guy? I see Epik is but their low tier is 10 bucks a month and doesn't list bandwidth.
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I think for alt-tech, we should be looking to go in the direction of becoming similar to the Pirate Bay. Running Virtual Machines through a range of providers and all external traffic goes through a load balancer before reaching the servers. Some very interesting tech used to keep that site running, but any articles I'm seeing on the subject are severely dated, so who knows if they've changed how they operate in the interim.
If I understand correctly, that's how this site (or the more notable target thedonald.win) stays up. They load balance through a bunch of different VM hosts that use a shared database backend.
That's how any sufficiently large site stays up. Not because they are being taken down, but because they need to be able to seamlessly add capacity and deal with outages/maintenance.
The real question is what is TD going to do when (((Cloudflare))) inevitably deplatforms them (i.e. exposes them to ddos attacks).
Yeah I figured that was it with a large site, but I bet a ton of them (Parler) settle on AWS load balancing across zones. They apparently went too deep into the AWS world because they seem to be totally dead.
I hope they have a plan for Cloudflare dropping them, particularly since they've been dropped by two hosts so far. There are other DDOS protections, just have to find one that will take their money I suppose.