First, lets start off with a little back story for the newbies. Right around the time pizzagate was being sent to voat the 2 owners disappeared and when they returned they acted like different people. Take into account that @sanegoatiswear was made to look like a crazy person off his meds and brigaded for over 10,000 ccp. I even believed sane wasn't so sane, when I first got here because he uses the same divide and conquer crap they do “the Jews" “muh Hitler" and racial divide. Credit goes to him for pointing this out though. Notice the upvote count and the comments seem to agree. Plus, at this point in time sane seemed to be fairly liked. Hopefully some older goats will jump in and clarify, I'm going on assumption because I got here with pizzagate and only know of sane from when he was being portrayed as insane. I know the shills will jump in and claim he's crazy or that I'm him, it's their only trick. I believe Sane is also the meaning of all this 1990 bs too, here's why..
https://voat.co/v/AnonBoard/1698273
https://voat.co/v/newsubverses/1632618
https://voat.co/v/TIL2/1627671
https://voat.co/v/whatever/2752621
Now, on to the evidence Voat has been fully funded and the owners are trying to sap more money out of the good people on Voat in true PAYtriot/FAKEtriot fashion. In approximately June 2017 @Puttitout posted this thread claiming Voat was broke and was likely going to shut down if they couldn't come up with over 6k a month for server costs. It even spawned this artucle.. https://gizmodo.com/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-voat-reddits-gross-clone-1795337099 Unfortunately, none of this was true and they were lying to all of you. Not that I wish voat would have closed, but I wish the people running it were real Patriots and they are far from it. Here are both of the deposit addresses that have been used to collect $ from voat users..
1PhBpbED6uEnrvy5s9F9axBZbK8fWAeZdc
3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k
They're both deposit addresses to the same bitcoin wallet. You can check that for yourself here: https://www.walletexplorer.com If you search that wallet back to around this time or a little before, the lies become apparent. Here's just before this time.. https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/00000014ea8b260f?page=89300 This shows they had over 14,000 bitcoin in this wallet just before this announcement. Now, that's not as much money as it would be today, at that time bitcoin was worth over $2300 a piece. So, that’s still over 32 million dollars. They could have funded the next 10 years of voat for $780,000, if they are really paying over 6k a month, and not even put a dent in that.
What do I believe all this means? We're sitting in the honeypot we all thought we were sitting in. That explains all the hateful rhetoric “kill all Jews”, “muh Hitler”, the black hate, it explains it all. They are looking to use all this against us to make us look how the MSM portrays us. Typical CTR/SJW bullshit and the owners have made a ton of money for selling you out to these clowns. Will they pull the plug on Voat? I'm sorry if they do and it separates us all temporarily. But, I won't watch good patriots get taken advantage of.
How does this make you old goats feel?
Everyone get out and vote RED!
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14836402? ago
How much traffic can 1 server handle? 6K a month cost seems steep to me. Multiplex incoming channels, multi-core processors or even parallel architecture. Is Voat THAT popular? I don't see those 30K upvoted threads on Voat, like I do on reddit (only 10 mins old BTW). Pretty much the same hitters in the stats posts (poster volumes).
14836927? ago
I do know, because I am building a high-volume application, that a single small server based on Erlang can handle 2 million live connections.
https://medium.com/fullstackhacks/erlang-no-process-was-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-post-247a80223f19
14839746? ago
So is $6K a month cost effective? I write parallel software. I mean, you can even do that part yourself with little effort using lynix (Unix/Posix server)...(fork()/exec()).
14841057? ago
I don´t know without understanding all the parts behind the scenes, stack (eg Java would require more memory than node). Id say if hosted on say EC2 with what I guess is 2 load balanced app servers, db cluster then 6k is steep per month for servers. But if they have a hot site backup or regionally placed servers in multiple DCs and maybe a microservice architecture that say they split off their auth services, socket services, link server (they do something with auto-archiving links I think) then prices go up for sure.
I would guess they have a mix of hosted servers like above and it may well cost 6k a month, but additional funds needed to pay for developerment, maintenance and support which is very expensive especially if paying US onshore developers.
14841131? ago
Yeah I think someone is GOUGING them...and how come they aren't running their OWN servers? Do they really need hot backup service? Who the fuck CARES about what nobodies think?
Why would they have to be distributed like you are mentioning? What is the risk?
I'm imagining they are purchasing space in a humongous server farm, when they COULD be doing whole thing in house with a couple servers and perhaps 6K per year in operating capital.
14841342? ago
distributed or regional services are meant to reduce load and increase response times. People with UK IP addresses may go to servers in a europe data center, people with Brazil IPs go to a data center there, US IPs on east coast go to a DC in Atlanta, Arizona may be routed to a DC in Vegas, etc.
Whether they need or want hot backup is their choice based on the risks they perceive and the value they place on downtime. They may or may not care about downtime - their call but if nobodies make up the reason you exist and you are down often then why even bother when competing services are around that do care adn are not down?
Hosting your own servers is a fools errand these days with hosted services so cheap. Unless you are a bank or have strict data facility security requirements and a very large budget to hire full time sys admins and plan on spending $5k or so per server and rack and cooling and electricity and can get your cable company to run a partial T1 with backup and have a power generator when electricity drops...it is much much more cost effective to pay $40 a month for something similar, set it up and forget about it. I doubt they are purchasing a server farm. Likely several shared instances or maybe even their own hosted instance.
14841614? ago
NO way lives depend on this. Hot backup is STUPID. 6K a month is cheap?
VIRTUAL (on demand) server farm I'm thinking.
A few servers...purchased...will run FINE for a few YEARS at least (luck). Forget about it is the key. The think I'm SAYING is that the REALITY is it is MUCH cheaper to "worry" about your own stuff, PLUS, the voat..."I'm not sharing your crap" thing. Hmm. Just wondering how the industry woks.
My friend dies last night. I'm upset I guess. sorry to be contentious.
14842049? ago
sorry to hear about your friend. hope you and his family carry his memory well. It is understandable you are out of sorts now.
FYI They have this platform open-sourced - you or anyone can literally spin up your own VOAT service if you want.
https://github.com/voat/voat14842138? ago
I'm considering a service of that sort for small to medium services.