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The nameservers point to Epik, so at least the DNS is run by them. The actual host is behind ddos-guard, so they may/may not be hosting the data with them or an
by shakna 6y ago
The nameservers point to Epik, so at least the DNS is run by them. The actual host is behind ddos-guard, so they may/may not be hosting the data with them or another provider.
As Epik seems to focus on shared hosting, and LAMP stack style applications and parler was using a proprietary DB in the last offering, they might reasonably have the actual hosting somewhere else.
Edit: Typo
- freedomben 6y agoA proprietary DB? Do you know which one? I saw a tweet that I thought said they were using Postgres. Just curious.
- shakna 6y agoScylla Enterprise [0] [1], which is a Cassandra-compatible NoSQL database, though I think that they were probably using the DynamoDB API shim to talk to it. The non-enterprise version is open source, but fewer features. [0] https://www.scylladb.com/product/scylla-enterprise/ https://www.scylladb.com/product/scylla-enterprise/ [1] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/14/it-could-be-never-parler-ceo-says-social-app-may-not-return https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/14/it-could-be-neve...