[HacktionLab] Fwd: [Newmedia] Fwd: Web server/host advice - as discussed

[Charlie Harvey]

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On 04/07/11 09:29, Garcon du Monde wrote:
> i did of course mean http://mayfirst.org as the website for
> mayfirst/peoplelink - congratulations to those people who were up
> earlier than me, had coffee, and spotted the deliberate mistage ;-)
> 
> solidarity,
> 
> 	--gdm

Hi Folks,

At NI we've worked with http://anarres.ca in the past. They do Drupal
hosting mostly and understand the tech and activist issues well. They're
in Canada. I believe Canada has pretty good privacy legislation, though
free speech seems to be more the issue for the original poster. There's
a few free speech orientated hosts that spring to mind. I don't know
them personally though:

http://www.grex.org/
http://hosting.dod.net/
http://www.ctyme.com/hosting/index.htm

Another thing to look at for sites that might prove unpopular with
determined and tech savvy attackers (hackers, state actors) is to use
cloudflare http://www.cloudflare.com/ . They've helped the lulzsec
people avoid getting DDoSed and provide a layer of obfuscation in front
of your actual hosting provider which makes it harder to censor your
site. There's a blog post at http://blog.cloudflare.com/58611873 and
http://lulzsecurity.com/ is still up . The danger here is that they are
logging IPs in order to profile attacks. So, there is a tradeoff between
availability and privacy.

We could talk about making an activist orientated version of that. I.e.
a non-logging distributed reverse proxy. That'd be a cool thing to have .

Cheers,
Charlie
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