Recent content by darkxerox

No that is not what I suggested. Still buy an offshore server and still hide your identity when buying that. it will likely also eventually be shut down but rather than changing your server extremely often then lengthen the cat and mouse game a little by adding a proxy layer

Yes use a reverse proxy running somewhere else, either you can set it up yourself or you can use a service from someone or get it as part of a CDN. Firstly such as layer can save you on the costs of hosting your server but it can also provide you a way to change where your domain points to. if...

SHA256 is designed to not be reversible. It is a one way cryptographic hash. Yes you can theoretically bruteforce it but then you are potentially talking a large amount of compute power and time. Unless this is somehow about life or death of someone you love I would suggest you stop trying and...

It too will have its final day at some point. It is the only certainty we have... or rather uncertainty is the only certainty. But just as one site dies, another new site will come to replace it.

Didn't Demonoid die? I was under the impression that all the reincarnations since the owner died were fakes. Isn't IPtorrents the private tracker to go for these days?

Wow I didn't realise TorrentBytes was still around. Nostalgia aside then it's only good to get rid of some of these older sites with ancient code bases and outdated architectures.

Giants come and go in this space. I guess their announcement is only unusual in that they mention the inflation, the war and the cost of electricity in datacenters as their reason for shutting down. But perhaps the site will rise again like so many others before it.

You get what you pay for. Contabo massively over provision so you think you're getting certain size of machine but since it's virtually allocated and the physical hardware is massively over allocated then you keep fighting with others for the computing resources. And yes bad customer service is...

If you are happy to handle circumventing that then setting up your services on google cloud should be easy enough. Most of their services are well documented and for a simple site it's all very straight forward.

I agree with BlogPro's suggestion. I would look to clone your current business and set it up as anonymous as you can. Then shutdown your current operations. In terms of the features and code I would make sure to make it as different as possible from your current tool. Purposely launch with less...

Agree with the others that say stay away from namecheap. I would say Hetzner is better than Hostinger but again depends on exactly what you're looking for in a cheap no nonsense hosting provider.

Google Cloud isn't anonymous as you have to provide a credit card and personal information. I haven't tried but pretty sure you can't easily provide fake info so in case anonymity matters to you then worth looking for another provider potentially. But basically go to console.cloud.google.com...

You cannot rely on a server hoster to provide you DMCA ignore. My recommendation is to make sure you have a proxy layer in between your domain and your server so that you can keep your server longer by avoiding the attention on it. let the focus land on your proxy layer which is easier to...

I would add that not only is storage separate but there are usually also different types of storage options. Both in terms of IO, reliability (RAID, backup copies) and in terms of how the storage is stored (filesystem, object storage, etc) and each have their pros and cons. So depending on the...

The whole rebranding to X seems more like a waste. Musk has always been weirdly fascinated with X... he had a previous venture called X that got merged into Paypal. I think his changes to Twitter from a business standpoint and a platform have mostly been correct. It was a failing business (that...