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.
Here's the problem. Josh owns almost everything, from the VERY GROUND his data center is in, all the way right up to when the Internet leaves his data center. Yes, he's a landchad that literally fucking did the equivalent of starting his own EVERYTHING. He owns all of it, and the only thing he didn't own was the DDOS protection (because DDOS protection is prohibitively expensive to run, Josh simply doesn't have the money or capacity to do it - you'd need someone like Oracle's former CEO kind of money to do it).
Josh owned the hardware, the code (he built his own forum software) and his own hosting, the whole fucking thing and they STILL managed to take him down because some of Keffals' mangirl troon squad brigade decided to do some slacktivism by firing their LOICs at Josh and DDOS services cucking to them.
The troon brigade and its NPC defenders are basically able to take advantage of the weaknesses in our current system to shut down Josh. As Josh pointed out in his telegram, several companies that swore they'd stand up against the troon brigade buckled really quickly.
They're even going after one of the 5 private Internet companies that keeps track of static IP addresses (he owns 2 or 3 I believe) and they want Josh to LOSE those addresses as well.
This is the equivalent of these faggots going to these IP registrars and demanding all the IP numbers that Spectrum etc owns to be removed from them. They obviously can't do that to Spectrum, but Josh is ONE guy... very easy to just have him lose that access.
Basically he can't even stay up despite LOLBERTARIANS saying for him to build his own. Josh is going against a narmy with faggots who will lie cheat and steal to get him off the net.
What are we at now? "Build you own worldwide computer network?"