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To: Persevero

1. They can find a new host, but it will usually take some time to set up the new hosting area, and restore or migrate existing data from the old site to the new one. There are some administrative changes, like repointing certain address records so people can be properly directed to the new location, and making sure firewalls and security issues are addressed. If there are web site acceleration layers in between, which help manage traffic, they may need to adjust to the new location.

Basically, unless the site maintained a hot or rapid failover secondary node, it may take some time to copy the data and test the configuration changes before it comes back online.

2. I’ve thought about this for some time. There’s certainly room out there for a conservative group to create a web host company for fellow conservative sites but it’s not as easy as it was in the early days of the web where you just pop a few pages up and advertise the location. With modern threats care would have to be taken to design a service that could withstand the cyber attacks which will inevitably come and be able to handle the traffic.


64 posted on 10/29/2018 6:46:09 PM PDT by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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To: Crolis

Thank you. It is a relief to me to hear there is a solution even if it may take time/money.


75 posted on 10/29/2018 10:13:41 PM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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