Gab went one way, Parler another.
Gab built up its own servers, and struggles to pay its bills.
Parler used 100s of Amazon servers....look where that got them.
Gab and Parler have both experienced MASSIVE growth in the past week.
Gab is struggling to keep up, using its own servers.
Parler is running great....until midnight tonight, when Amazon is pulling their plug.
I’m on both. (I quit and deleted Facebook 12-31.)
https://parler.com/profile/MattBracken/posts
Gab is down for the moment, because it can’t keep up with current demand. But, it owns its own servers, from what I undertand.
Parler certainly had struggles to meet demand a few months ago when the mass Twitter/FB exodus began (eg when Mark Levin et al joined Parler). There were several days when Parler was completely bogged down due to traffic. Rather like Gab is today.
I’ve been preaching the cloud sucks for these reasons.
Companies have just thought someone else doing the technical work was better. For some, that’s true. For large scale companies, it is not.
Gab has gone through all the de-platforming issues Parler will have to go through.