Is there nowhere in the world a server farm could be set up outside the reach of Google, AWS, the U.S. government and the like?
What needs to be done to protect free speech platforms like T_D.win from being silenced?
Is there nowhere in the world a server farm could be set up outside the reach of Google, AWS, the U.S. government and the like?
What needs to be done to protect free speech platforms like T_D.win from being silenced?
Yes, bulletproof hosting using reverse proxies or chaining multiple tunnels with a ddos solution (like cloudflare)
i.e.
Backend hosts (multiples) -> NGINX in upstream mode that only serves on localhost -> (Proxy, SSH tunnel, or Multiple SSH tunnels chained together) w/ NGINX/APACHE reverse proxy to prev connection -> Anti DDoS service (cloudflare)
It would prevent anyone from being able to discover the backend servers ip addresses and the upstream mode will distribute the load so 1 server does not get bogged down.
It would also prevent the DDOS service (or anyone) from knowing the ip addresses of the backend servers to get them shutdown.
Worst they can do is get one of the proxies taken down which can be had to pennies on the dollar.
It would look like this is someone were to visit the site
website.win -> cloudflare -> proxy1/reverse proxy (stunnel1 -> stunnel2 -> stunnel3) -> upstream/HA server -> (backend1, backend2, backend3, etc)
Normal traffic will only be able to see to cloudflare, cloudflare/gov will only be able to see to proxy1 (which will look like the main site but will not be accessible unless coming through CF). They would need a warrant for proxy1 as well as one for each one in the chain.
Thanks for the in-depth response. Why aren't companies like Parler doing these things instead of putting their entire business in the hands of AWS?
Because they are legit and do not need to hide (or shouldnt) hence the AWS or self hosted like gab (nothing illegal so no risk in a raid) and each additional hop will slow down the response time a bit and you would eat through quite a bit of bandwidth on each hop as its pretty much forwarding each request as is.
Thats also a very very paranoid example, just a FYI
Doesn't matter about servers, there are other ways but I ain't mentioning them. Best thing is to have extra food and just stay put, 2 weeks will fly by.
It only matters who is hosting the site. If the servers are privately owned, then nobody can do shit. That's how Alex Jones has stayed in the game, he built his own infastructure. Now if T_D.win is using a cloud service ran by a big tech company like Amazon or Microsoft, then thats a problem.
Anyone know (ballpark) how much traffic the site gets?
I saw 1.5 million unique users and 20 million pages views a month.