Our usual sticky can be found here: Executive Summary of Pizzagate Evidence
Please keep an eye on this post from @PuttItOut regarding the special measures (like "checking your bits", etc.) that have been put in place due to ongoing, dynamic and very costly (i.e. funded by deep pockets) cyberattacks against the site. Someone is trying very, very hard to silence us all. He just updated this post today:
Voat is being maliciously attacked (CHECK FOR UPDATES)
Edit 4:
As many of you know already Voat is still being attacked, but in many different ways. We now believe this is related to Voat not taking down material without a court order.
Edit 3:
We are still being sent high amounts of traffic. For the time being let's just be happy we have remained online throughout this assault. Sorry about the thumbnails (text only Voat is so 1990s).
Top Traffic Last 24 Hours
DDOS Inflow
Edit 2:
This attack is relentless and dynamic. They have found holes in our system and hit us where we never expected. This has forced us to reconfigure our network and site behavior to prevent repeat attacks.
Voat has been put into "lockdown" mode so things like thumbnail generation are disabled.
Edit:
These guys are actually fairly creative. We might have a worthy opponent here. Buckle up Voat.
One of the reasons yesterday's attempt at rolling forward the port code failed was that Voat was being sent DDOS style requests in very large numbers. See yesterdays announcement about this topic.
Voat is at a stage now that the code can somewhat deal with this without capitulating. Usually these attacks only last 10-12 hours, but this current run has been longer in duration than normal so we are now informing the community that we are actually being maliciously targeted.
Below are some interesting graphs showing some stat data:
Top traffic sources in Last 24 hours
Requests over last 30 days
CPU drop when CF DDOS Protection turned on
I'll provide more info when we have it, but PG.
Until then, enjoy having your bits closely inspected. Please don't be shy about it either, just go with it. This includes the ladies as well... ;)
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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argosciv ago
wait... 2 stickies? whatisthis.jpg
Vindicator ago
Indeed! This appears to be one of the improvements Putt has put in place, though I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere. Or, it could be a fortuitous bug. 🙄
argosciv ago
Ahem...
Wot? xD
Vindicator ago
Voat has been trying to port to a much leaner, cheaper to host platform, so that it can be self-supporting and not have to take money from any single large investor (and risk becoming a tool of the investor's agenda). We were on Azure, but Microsoft raised the fee to host the servers dramatically, and Voat almost had to close this past spring. Instead, the community rallied behind Putt and they came up with a plan and starting rewriting the code. You can read all about it a v/announcements.