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[–] 4 pts

Thankfully we have @picman and pic8.co

[–] 1 pt

Too bad. But never rely on an image hoster, they go down like flies. Maybe something like ipfs.pics is more stable, but that's not proven.

[–] 1 pt

Thats why we like picinfinity, it makes sure the images stay live using multiple hosts.

[–] 1 pt

I'm not familiar with pic∞ tech, but I guess a DNS ban could nuke it. Or some other simple thing, there were so many before it which were sunk.

I liked veuwer and sling was ok as well, but you know it ended like many others.

[–] 1 pt

Yeah @picman works pretty closely with us most of the time, so worst case I'll make it a poal sub domain and mod the links in the database. I am far from a good programmer but I am pretty bad ass when it comes to system admin stuff, knowing @picman has multiple domains means its harder to kill that way. DNS is a big problem though and one I haven't come up with a great solution for yet, I'll keep at it and I'm sure come up with something eventually.

[–] 1 pt

That sucks...these fucking SJW will not be happy until the entire world is destroyed.

I designed logos for its owner (@jmtullock & @jmtullock2 on voat) a few years ago.

[–] 3 pts

Yeah it’s a bummer, things like this are exactly why. I didn’t host in the us. Also I’ve got an idea just Incase something like this did happen to poal. Remind me to bring it up on riot later

Do WE have a plan B?

[–] 3 pts

Yes, I keep local backups of poal and the database and could roll out poal onsite in a matter of minutes. Obviously my bandwidth is limited but in the event of something like this poal would not die or even experience much downtime while I found a new host. In the event I lost my connection and the host shut us down I could even roll out on another connection I have access too relatively quickly over mobile. I've spent a fair bit of time thinking about this and I have an even better plan in the works but I'll sit on that one until its either ready or closer too it.

Good to know that you're prepared. I guess the problem is where to host if shit gets ugly.

[–] 2 pts

I've got a list of alternatives. Worst case scenario I'll start my own god damn datacenter.

[–] 1 pt

I guess they finally found those Trudeau Castro memes.