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Ars Technica reports:
8chan was able to get back online today despite Cloudflare cutting it off, as operators of the controversial website quickly found a new provider of CDN and DDoS protection services. But as of this writing 8chan is offline again, apparently as a result of a cloud provider cutting off 8chan’s new vendor.
8chan quickly switched its website over a provider called BitMitigate, the same company that began serving the Daily Stormer after Cloudflare cut it off.
BitMitigate is similar to Cloudflare in that it provides protection against DDoS attacks along with a content delivery network and DNS services. But while Cloudflare has made several exceptions to its commitment to free speech, BitMitigate has been happy to provide services to any website regardless of its content.
UPDATE: 8Chan has moved to @bitmitigate, which will now provide them with DDOS protection.
It is owned by https://t.co/PAZtAtjv2G, which provides services to The Daily Stormer and Gab.
This year, owner Rob Monster, uploaded the Christchurch shooting video to Twitter and Gab. https://t.co/rjGaHNQPEm
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) August 5, 2019
UPDATE: @voxility has cut off https://t.co/PAZtAtjv2G and Bitmitigate, which saved 8Chan yesterday, from using their services. https://t.co/u3zUs6vllJ
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) August 5, 2019
It appears that 8Chan and The Daily Stormer are now offline.
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) August 5, 2019
In case you were wondering, it looks like the new host of 8chan and Daily Stormer will effectively be @voxility. It looks like Epik/Bitmitigate owns very little of their own hardware and instead rents Voxility’s servers and AS.https://t.co/K3NXyVYcUThttps://t.co/zC0csJpQZp pic.twitter.com/pml4bL0kUU
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) August 5, 2019
In other news, this is pretty weak peering diversity for somebody who considers themselves a competitor to Cloudflare.
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) August 5, 2019
UPDATE: Looks like @voxility just cut off all of Bitmitigate’s prefix at their edge routers, shutting down not only their customers but Epik’s corporate systems.
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) August 5, 2019