Posted on 01/09/2021 7:17:33 PM PST by SamAdams76
Today is a tremendous milestone for the Gab community.
After over a year of work Gab is finally migrated to our own in-house servers. If you talk to anyone in the technology industry they will tell you that this is no easy task. Most technology startups have the luxury of using third-party cloud hosting providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and others.
Gab does not have this luxury.
Over the past four years we have been banned from multiple cloud hosting providers and were told that if we didn’t like it we should “build our own.”
So, that’s exactly what we did.
Gab isn’t just building an alternative social network. We’re building an alternative internet. From hosting infrastructure to web browsing and more: Gab is the market leader when it comes to defending free speech against Silicon Valley tyranny online.
For a typical Gab user our new infrastructure means a noticeable improvement on site performance and speed that will scale as Gab continues to grow.
Today’s accomplishment is only possible because of people like you.
Gab is 100% funded by our community of people, not big corporate sponsors. On Gab you are the customer, not the product being sold. We’d like to send a special thank you to our donors, investors, and GabPRO customers who made today possible. Thank you also to our team of engineers behind the scenes who worked tirelessly for over a year to make this happen.
The war for free speech on the internet has only just begun, but today a big battle was won.
Good for them. 👍
Gab is having difficulty dealing with high volume of new users.
I Like GAB. I’ve Been with Gab since the beginning.
I’ve been thinking about going there.
True but they don’t have server companies like Amazon rendering them useless.
Quite possibly. Gab is sufficiently autonomous, not at the mercy of Big Tech.
I’ve been on GAB for quite awhile. I was there way back when Andy went thru the wringer with hosting. He’s done a remarkable job at putting that site on its owns servers, etc.
I was on Parler for awhile as I figured the POTUS would likely end up there.
Personally, I like GAB’s user interface and layout a lot better than what I saw at Parler. Not that it was really all that bad, but GAB just seems to do it better.
Let this be a lesson: NEVER let the enemy have any kind of control over your business if you can help it....they’ll eventually use it to either try to control you and/or kill you.
Bring Trump on board....He's the master builder!....
“Gab is having difficulty dealing with high volume of new users.”
Probably just growing pains.
Sweet!
I, too, have a company with our own data center. Cloud is a stupid way to run a business because that gives Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google and others, the ability to ruin you if they chose to cut your subscription like Amazon just did to Parler. They also have massive intellectual property theft issues due to all the foreigners and foreign locations they use that do not respect the law.
Can’t even sign up. Pages aren’t loading, or you get a maintenance notice, and when you do get to the registration page, fill it out, and send it, it times out.
I downloaded it but all I have is a news feed, nothing like Twitter.
Regarding Gab:
“ Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
Yogi Berra
Until they come for your IP's.
Amazon is cutting off Parler’s servers
https://money.yahoo.com/amazon-suspends-parler-aws-access-025310355.html
Unless Parler can find a new host, it will go offline on Sunday.
You can't have an entirely unmoderated "Free Speech" forum or else it'll get disrupted and become unusable. Gab could become a great alternative, but they need to clean it up a little bit.
Parlar and Telegram are hard no's from me until they remove the requirement for a cell phone number to sign up.
You could be right, but I can’t identify. I’ve never been on any social media — unless FR is social media.
Now that Parler looks to be going offline tomorrow, Gab will likely be virtually unusable for a few days as everybody heads there. They are going to need a lot more servers.
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