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Gab Just Became Resilient In A Big Way
Gab ^ | September 30, 2020 | Andrew Torba

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: communications; gab
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To: mass55th

Same here. Hope they can work it out. Hope it’s not being throttled by the commies


21 posted on 01/09/2021 7:34:18 PM PST by RushingWater
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To: dennisw; Jim Robinson

Feel pretty secure here on FR as Jim and John handle the servers for us here....we are quite fortunate.


22 posted on 01/09/2021 7:34:54 PM PST by caww (God is still on His throne....Trust Him especially when we don't understand!)
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To: sarge83

Skip the app.
Try gab.com from your browser.
Might have a better experience.
At least for the time being.


23 posted on 01/09/2021 7:38:47 PM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: SamAdams76

while we’re trying to find an independent platform, many are assuming out internet access can’t be interrupted. People need to plan for internet alternatives.


24 posted on 01/09/2021 7:39:36 PM PST by jmclemore (Hey! Mr. President, Lock them the FuQUp)
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To: caww

Bttt


25 posted on 01/09/2021 7:39:59 PM PST by novemberslady
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To: SamAdams76
Liberals are so EFFING stupid.

I went to Twitter and it is virtually a ghost town now, filled with liberals kissing Jack's ass, tweeting their pathetic little memes and jokes about Trump. All my favorites like Tracy Beanz, Dan Bongino, and Techno Fog are gone now.

I guarantee you Trump is working with top tech people to create a whole new platform that's going to blow Twitter out the water. Liberals cannot complete with free speech so that's why they want to ban people that disagree with them.

Once Gab and Parler get up to speed, I'm completely cancelling my Twitter account

26 posted on 01/09/2021 7:40:19 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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To: RushingWater

Oh, those servers you ordered are on back order for twelve months. Sort of like that? 😒😯


27 posted on 01/09/2021 7:43:40 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from the inside? Check! WTH? Screwed, blued and tatooed.)
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To: Drew68

[Parlar and Telegram are hard no’s from me until they remove the requirement for a cell phone number to sign up. ]


Precisely. Maybe they could all come to Free Republic.


28 posted on 01/09/2021 7:43:57 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: SamAdams76

Oh the irony of this post at this time. Gab is completely down and not responding at all.


29 posted on 01/09/2021 7:45:27 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: SamAdams76

Next step is for Gab to make their own PC/ phones, I hope.


30 posted on 01/09/2021 7:48:14 PM PST by inchworm (al )
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To: SamAdams76

Gab can be shut down, too, if they have American servers.

Need servers abroad. I recommend Iceland.


31 posted on 01/09/2021 7:48:54 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: SamAdams76

Gab is getting slammed. 10K sign-ups per hour.


32 posted on 01/09/2021 7:49:41 PM PST by lula (Shine the light of truth Lord, confound the deceiver I pray...AMEN!)
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To: Zhang Fei
Precisely. Maybe they could all come to Free Republic.

The problem with this place is it just isn't mobile or tablet-friendly. A lot of people these days, particularly young people, don't compute on desktops or laptops. They use their phones for everything. That's what makes it so damaging when apps get shut out of the market.

33 posted on 01/09/2021 7:51:35 PM PST by Drew68
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To: SamAdams76

https://www.businessinsider.com/gab-reports-growth-in-the-midst-of-twitter-bans-2021-1

“Gab, a social networking site popular among the far right, seems to be capitalizing on Twitter bans and Parler’s suspension from the Google store. It says its gaining 10,000 new users every hour.”

Good grief!


34 posted on 01/09/2021 7:53:24 PM PST by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: lgjhn23

Been on Gab a while too, yeah they are feeling to load of new users. Went fully on board after FreeZoxee shut down, too bad they went belly up I thought they were good, it was pretty much meme based but it had potential


35 posted on 01/09/2021 7:54:46 PM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: CodeToad

“Cloud is a stupid way to go”

What exactly is the cloud? I thought it was a nonspecific term for any data repository out there on the internet.


36 posted on 01/09/2021 7:56:00 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: mass55th

Patience Grasshopper! Going through it too.


37 posted on 01/09/2021 7:57:12 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: mrsmith

Yeah I kind of doubt that right now, if you can’t get through the front end timeouts you can’t be adding new users


38 posted on 01/09/2021 7:57:29 PM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: Fiddlstix

I had a Gab acct when it started.

Totally forgot what the user credentials are.


39 posted on 01/09/2021 7:58:46 PM PST by sauropod ("No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain)
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To: SamAdams76

Guess what?

Just as the CCP blocks access to specific web addresses, Gab will soon be blocked in the United States.

I’ll bet dollars to donuts.


40 posted on 01/09/2021 7:59:48 PM PST by bolobaby
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