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[–] 21117742? ago 

How do other sites deal with it?

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[–] 21123281? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

There are multiple ways to do it, but ultimately it runs down to using (or paying for using) (parts of/shared) dedicated hardware solutions (networking gear, servers, software) to put in front of your servers and dedicated personnel (network engineers, sysadmins/devops & security specialists) to put on-call behind those dedicated hardware ressources.

Even if you had, lets say, one very dedicated person doing everything, you still need 4 of them to cover a 24/7/365 operation.

All this costs money and I don't know on what budget Voat is being operated.

Or, you could blend in and not become a target. That works for a lot of sites, but not in the 'free speech' category ;)

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[–] 21123831? ago 

If you tried to ddos a large site are they able to handle it because of the IT and dedicated hardware or because of their sheer scale? Is there a cloud solution that would scale up under stress and handle something like this?

It would help if there was more than 2 or 3 free speech sites too. I wonder if Gab and Dissenter face similar challenges.