They dont have simple web site that they just flip onto another web hosting provider. Migrating takes times so this buys them 30 days that Amazon must give them before severing.
“They dont have simple web site that they just flip onto another web hosting provider. Migrating takes times so this buys them 30 days that Amazon must give them before severing.”
I help administer systems like this. Certainly not as large as Parler.
Their biggest challenge is probably the database. The sheer size of the dataset is extreme. Properly speaking, they should’ve had up to date backups located somewhere other than AWS, either another cloud storage host or on prem storage system (the latter being the better choice for obvious reasons).
The fact that this is still dragging on suggests they may not have had that backup, OR, the dataset is so large, it’s taking this long to simply upload it to the DB server running in the new hosting provider’s data center. If that’s the case, they should’ve drove it out to the data center in a truck. Such things have been done.
The web component is just code and all it needs is a front end server.
What I’m concerned about is that Parler doesn’t actually have their DB anymore, in which case they are screwed long, hard, and without recourse. If they still have the site’s source code, they could still conceivably get the system stood up and just restart from scratch, but that’s not ideal.