In light of the Kiwi Farms situation this is a discussion that we really need to have, and I think the demographic of this community in particular makes it a really good place to talk about this. I'm hoping that this thread can be of use to the admins of this site, and maybe even Kiwi Farms or anyone looking to keep a website up in the face of the kind of concerted troon attacks that Kiwi Farms is experiencing. I wanted to ask our more technically inclined users:
a) Is troon proofing a website possible?
b) If so how do you do it?
My understanding is that you need your own servers, a domain name, DDoS protection, and a way to protect against hackers. But this isn't my area of expertise and I may be missing something. In any case it would be necessary to troon proof every link in the chain. I'm interesting to hear what the community thinks about this.
You have to use providers that aren’t intimidated by woke mobs. This site uses Epik as its domain registrar for example.
Null was apparently hosting the farms on a physical server in a data center in Ukraine. Eastern Europe is far less likely to be swayed by tranny mobs than in the U.S.
I don’t have a good answer for DDOS protection or routing or ISPs though.
Null needs to host the server on hardware he actually owns, and he should start hosting the domain himself.
He has been iirc, but he still needs to address the ddosing. Which he's been working on, but he's supposedly had some looming IRL stuff going on for a while now. Sounded to me like a family member being terminally ill or something.
He does buddy. He literally owns the ground and the hardware.
As long as you have multiple redundant failover hosts on encrypted disks, using colocated servers or VPS should be fine.
What the Pirate Bay has been doing apparently is that they locate their servers on multiple redundant commercial instances but tunnel to them by VPN from a "front door" that the public reaches through the public URL. The hosting providers normally don't know that they are hosting the Pirate Bay and when a hosting instance is occasionally shut down, the other redundant instances pick up the slack.
That's exactly what I mean, yes. I remembered reading their methodology before. Forgot to mention the VPN part.
The issue with epik os that they hate chan sites such as 8chan, trolling communites such as the Kiwi Farms, and sites dedicated to actual hate speech like the daily stormer.