Thank you for the information, friend. Appreciate the advice.

10-4 thanks for the check

What about just trying your favorite 10 subverses? If these are distributed backups, different people can have different subverses backed up. They don't necessarily need to try to capture all of VOAT.

Good question to Putt - hopefully captures with appropriate timers in place won't be considered abuse.

Forgive my ignorance, but why would mirrors go down as well? I don't understand why you think an attack on CloudFlare would somehow impact non CloudFare sites. A cursory search on DreamHost's site (I'm not recommending them, just referencing them for this exercise) shows that CloudFare "optimization" is both optional and a paid-for add-on. So one can setup a mirror without CloudFlare.

As a mirror creator, I don't even need to mirror the whole site. I could mirror my favorite 10 subverses. Another user can mirror their favorite subverses.

DreamHost (again just referencing, not recommending) offers "Virtual Private Server" hosting with unlimited bandwidth for 10 federal reserve notes a month. Why wouldn't such a hosting plan be sufficient for this purpose?

Not trying to be argumentative or disrespectful. Just honestly looking for a reason why a read-only mirror would need anything more than something simple like I'm proposing.

Yes I am suggesting I can spend my own money on hosting this. What I'm wondering is whether there are technical or other barriers which would thwart this effort, or other reasons why it may not work.

Thanks. FWIW I was thinking of a temporary, read-only mirror, not a fully functional mirror.

Sorry for the double post everyone. It was when VOAT was quite laggy and I could not tell whether the post was submitted.