#Lst server banned full#
When 8chan lost Cloudflare, it was exposed to the full force of the internet, likely including DDoS and other attacks, and was brought offline. It’s not required, but is highly recommended.Ĭloudflare will stop service to 8chan, which CEO Matthew Prince describes as a ‘cesspool of hate’ This is a service like Cloudflare’s, which sits in front of the website and sort of sifts the traffic so attacks are turned away and the website stays up even during other kinds of outages. Increasingly a fourth piece is necessary: caching and denial-of-service attack protection.
Servers are usually “virtualized” in that you don’t really rent five computers somewhere but rather a certain amount of capacity on a huge shared server farm. Your data has to physically be stored somewhere with a fat pipe to the internet so others can access it.
These do work in the background to turn requests, like putting into their browser bar, into actions: finding the IP address where Facebook is and establishing a connection between that one and the user’s. This is the company that officially owns and licenses to you the specific series of letters and numbers that make up your website’s name, like.