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Crazy. Because of the content?

They didn't say, but I'm starting to think that's why.

I use knownhost for some of my sites. May be worth looking at. Been with then for 7 years and no complaints.

Save all our emails just in case.

I do have everyone's email.

I will work on a backup site that's ready to go in case Digital Ocean permanently flakes out.

How about 1984.is or another Icelandic Server?

Happy to send a few bucks.

#fuckdigitalocean

Patrick skeet so hard they called Digital Ocean

Dammit, my virtual server was simply hung again. Not my code, but the whole machine. Could not even ssh in or ping.

So for the rest of today I'm going to try to move to a different droplet there, and then also set up a backup server somewhere.

Possible coincidence, but if they're intercepting ivermectin, calling concerned parents terrorists, etc., what's to stop the DOJ from forcing ISP's to surreptitiously install back-end surveillance on "insurrectionist" websites. @Richwicks - is there a way for Patrick to detect this?

My home internet is coincidentally going out now as well.

Has cannibal anarchy started?

Is there something like tracert where a user can trace the chain of packets to and from a website? It would probably be too obvious, perhaps. Then again, the MIC just reclaimed a large portion of dark IP addresses - I wonder what the complete list is?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/pentagon-explains-odd-transfer-of-175-million-ip-addresses-to-obscure-company/

stereotomy says

Possible coincidence, but if they're intercepting ivermectin, calling concerned parents terrorists, etc., what's to stop the DOJ from forcing ISP's to surreptitiously install back-end surveillance on "insurrectionist" websites. @Richwicks - is there a way for Patrick to detect this?

tcpdump can record all transactions being made. What I'd do is write a script to see if somebody is going though the site one page at a time.

The problem with detecting intrusion is differentiating from a real user, and a computer program.

As likely a technical glitch as willful censorship. It could be someone at Digital Ocean not liking your content and fucking with you, but probably not official action.

We are getting closer to the day when sites like this will be banned and meetings of like minded liberty seeking people will be raided for being "Insurrectionists".

Onvacation says

We are getting closer to the day when sites like this will be banned and meetings of like minded liberty seeking people will be raided for being "Insurrectionists".

Haha. The more ridiculous this government gets, the better.

Onvacation says

It could be someone at Digital Ocean not liking your content and fucking with you, but probably not official action.

That's exactly what I think is going on at the moment.

Patrick says

Onvacation says

It could be someone at Digital Ocean not liking your content and fucking with you, but probably not official action.

That's exactly what I think is going on at the moment.

You could write a wget script to get a TINY file off the server, that when it fails (after so many minutes), makes some sort of alert to you.

Heck you should be able to just ping it every 30 seconds or so - make CERTAIN you know what the failure looks like by using a FAKE IP address (my stupid ISP always responds even to a ping www.xxjssdfjasdemd.com)

Then you can be right on their neck within a few minutes when it "accidentally goes down".

I have a script run from cron to check the page and send me a text if there was no answer, but that script was on the same machine...

So tomorrow I'm going to get a monitor going on a laptop I always leave running at home.

Patrick says

I have a script run from cron to check the page and send me a text if there was no answer, but that script was on the same machine...

So tomorrow I'm going to get a monitor going on a laptop I always leave running at home.

Ever use nohup, screen, or @reboot in your crontab?

Cron just runs a job periodically, but with any of those you can run a script forever, until you kill it. If you do something like this in your ctrontab to run a script forever, make certain you end it with &

@reboot 2>&1 < /dev/null &

That redirects any output it produces to /dev/null