He is using the russian narrative, he is insinuates that the referrendums was legal and democratic and that a state that is under attack should surrender in order to calm things down. He blames the victim.
BuyVM was one of the longest lasting VPS providers that we used during the era before the Kiwi Farms had its own Internet resources. The owner only relented when the world's biggest Evanescence fan (a lonely old man who is literally demented) used a trick to import a UK defamation suit to Canada using an exploit with the Commonwealth.
Despite this, they lasted over a year, communicated, and gave us time to move off. They hold a stellar reputation among hobbyists online, and I would strongly recommend them for anyone hosting anything less difficult than the Kiwi Farms.
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Lineode (C)
Linode was our first host and was not put through the same tests as others. They dropped at the first sign of heat. However, they communicated well and gave us time to move. My account was left up with them and I still use them for small, normal projects because their service is quite good.
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DigitalOcean (C)
We briefly used DigitalOcean for hosting. Like with Linode, they gave us professional notice and we moved on without incident and without my account being terminated. I still use them for some ordinary projects.
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Gandi - (F)
Gandi was the second host we used after Linode dropped us. I hadn't figured out how to use reverse proxies yet, so this was a big deal.
A French company, Gandi lived up to the reputation of the surrender monkeys and dropped service almost immediately. In their disorganized retreat, they did not even bother warn us before dropping service. This resulted in a roll back and data loss of a few days (only one a few times to have ever happened in our history), requiring me to reload the site off a stale archive.
Gandi also lied and said we hosted child abuse material. They based this off hosting a clip of Goosh Goosh, an anime meme which can be found on YouTube. This lie has seriously damaged our reputation and is still spread to this day. I would recommend Gandi to literally no one.
COLOCATION
Colocrossing (F)
ColoCrossing was a datacenter I lived near in Buffalo, NY. They were the first datacenter I used. Unfortunately, they physically pulled the plug on our devices and told us to move on zero notice. They also charged me $700 for the overnight shipping.
DOMAIN REGISTRARS / TLDS
Epik (S)
Epik under Rob Monster experienced waffling support for high-risk websites like 8chan. In September 2022, it has come under new management which has recommitted to not moderating the Internet.
DreamHost (A)
Dreamhost was the first domain registrar I ever used, years before I hosted the Kiwi Farms. It remained my go-to for over ten years. Dreamhost only asked us to move after Byuu faked his death, and gave us plenty of time.
DDOS MITIGATION
Cloudflare (F)
As much as I want to give Cloudflare some praise for standing by for almost a decade, I can't. When they did terminate:
- No direct communication with me, before or after service termination.
- No time to move off before the domain went down.
- Issued a strong statement in objection to private company censorship, before immediately backtracking it.
- Hijacked our domain to issue a defamatory, almost legally actionable, statement.
- Flailing blogpost accusing us of being the worst site they've ever hosted, alluding to violent threats they have not evidenced.
Cloudflare just isn’t professional for its size.
DDoS-Guard (F)
DDoS-Guard was our second choice after Cloudflare and they lasted less than a day. Despite being from Based Russia!!!, DDoS-Guard is deathly afraid of U.S. law enforcement. When the people trying to deplatform the site claimed we were illegal, they immediately shit themselves and terminated service without warning.
Despite their claims that Kiwi Farms blinded them, the kiwifarms.ru domain had been protected by DDoS-Guard for at least a year.
DiamWall (F)
DiamWall is Portuguese. They lasted for a few hours. I'd give them a higher mark for being highly communicative, but they dropped service in early morning hours, without warning, and let the person deplatforming the site spellcheck their fucking statement for them.
They're young college students who are not ready to run a company with the kind of exposure that DDoS mitigation creates.
Koddos (U)
Koddos replied to my email saying they did not want to be involved.
Sorry. But I've noticed that recently HN doesn't automatically flag my inadvertent resubmissions: this has happened several times in the past week. Not intentional on my part.
Interesting. HN is pretty good about not allowing duplicate posts, at least within a short window. I wonder if it was allowed since the other two posts didn't generate any conversation.
This is off-topic, but why doesn't a bot exist for this yet? Paywalled content seems to be becoming increasingly common and sophisticated so it's surprising to me that no one on HN has made a bot which automatically comments the archive.ph link for any post linking to a known paywalled site.
More importantly, why isn't posting a link to a paywalled site against HN rules? HN has plenty of rules to improve the quality of submissions and headlines; why do they allow paywalls?
