Can we setup VOAT mirrors?
4 30 Jul 2019 22:14 by u/CTCZ
I did some basic research and found it may not be a large technical challenge to mirror the site.
There are multiple ways to achive this goal it seems. And multiple people could do it independently using different techniques.
My questions to the programming group:
* If mirrors were setup and refreshed well enough to act as a read-only temporary location, would it help alleviate the DDOS attacks? Would the presence of live mirrors thwart the incentive for DDOS? I think it would, but I'd like your input
* If mirrors can be used to thwart the incentive for DDOS, are there downsides to having these mirrors setup?
If it's only a matter of buying a domain name like www.myVOATmirror.com and hosting package from Dreamhost to make mirroring a pushbutton operation, I think it is likely we can get a few people to do this exercise.
3 comments
0 u/TheBudhha 30 Jul 2019 22:27
A friend told me that most of the Darknet drug markets use mirror sites to successfully stave off DDoS attacks. Some have like twenty mirrors, he said.
0 u/DeputyPutt 30 Jul 2019 23:20
Looks like you created 2 posts. I answered in https://voat.co/v/programming/3359777 as to why you probably can't stave off anything for long.
0 u/CTCZ [OP] 31 Jul 2019 13:30
Sorry for the double post everyone. It was when VOAT was quite laggy and I could not tell whether the post was submitted.