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.
Same here. Hope they can work it out. Hope it’s not being throttled by the commies
Feel pretty secure here on FR as Jim and John handle the servers for us here....we are quite fortunate.
Skip the app.
Try gab.com from your browser.
Might have a better experience.
At least for the time being.
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.
Bttt
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
Oh, those servers you ordered are on back order for twelve months. Sort of like that? 😒😯
[Parlar and Telegram are hard no’s from me until they remove the requirement for a cell phone number to sign up. ]
Oh the irony of this post at this time. Gab is completely down and not responding at all.
Next step is for Gab to make their own PC/ phones, I hope.
Gab can be shut down, too, if they have American servers.
Need servers abroad. I recommend Iceland.
Gab is getting slammed. 10K sign-ups per hour.
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.
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!
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
“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.
Patience Grasshopper! Going through it too.
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
I had a Gab acct when it started.
Totally forgot what the user credentials are.
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.
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