Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by aabhay on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:49PM (#25771690)

It is increasingly, vanishingly hard to not use the big three cloud services. Mainly because any platform or tool you might use is _also_ hosted on these clouds.

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by WClayFerguson on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:52PM (#25771718)

You can build on Java + SpringBoot + MySQL + Linux + Docker Compose, then what else do you really need?

I mean there's tons of technology stacks to choose from, but people get lazy and take the easy way out rather than learning to scale servers themselves.

Get on Linode. It's base on Linux instances. If you build on Linux you are "free" and not "owned"

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by runawaybottle on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:02PM (#25771805)

Linode and Digital Ocean docs also are leagues ahead of AWS. They cover a lot of stuff. I didn’t even know what fail2ban was when one of my VPS’s got hacked. Went through all their docs, they cover a lot and really helped me understand how much I didn’t know while at the same time providing guides on getting up to speed.

AWS won’t tell you about those things because they sell you security, so you remain a dumbass about those things indefinitely.

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by WClayFerguson on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:20AM (#25772430)

Exactly right. lol.

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by indigodaddy on Thursday January 14, 2021 @04:44AM (#25774266)

If you are doing ssh config properly, then you don’t need fail2ban or its ilk.

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by Mediterraneo10 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:15AM (#25774584)

Fail2ban protects more services running on a server than just SSH.

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by onion2k on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:01PM (#25771796)

... what else do you really need?

A proper database.

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by WClayFerguson on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:19AM (#25772421)

There's a lot of DBs to choose from: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL. What you want to avoid is anything from Amazon or Google ANY other similar service.

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by swebs on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:42AM (#25775670)

Is that supposed to be a dig against MySQL, or did you just miss that in the list?

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by WClayFerguson on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:38AM (#25778448)

Looks like you misspelled "NoSQL" :)

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by cptskippy on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:10PM (#25771870)

Most everything I develop is in .NET and will run comfortably in Nginx, IIS, or an Azure App Service Resource.

It's not that hard.

In my experience most developers just inherit the infrastructure and even the base project from someone else. They've never stood up a server or configure anything from scratch so they have no idea what they're doing.

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by DarkWiiPlayer on Thursday January 14, 2021 @04:51AM (#25774341)

I've been telling people for ages that, even if they want to use a pre-built solution, they should at least set up the base systems a few times to get a better felling for them and.

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by cblconfederate on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:47AM (#25773818)

that logic is a vicious cycle

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