Where is 4chin actually hosted? Who controlls this godforsaken place?

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fake

Cloudflare

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>Mac Mini Cluster at MoMo - 0210201018405
> Taken on February 10, 2010

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Cloudflare doesn't host anything. They're a caching service.

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How old are these pictures?

just check the exif data brah

Jow Forums DELETES THAT SHIT

Jow Forums is full of brainlets today

Idk

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No way someone who works there doesn't also occasionally lurk here.

Way more important question: How do they manage this site?

Cloudflare doesn't host mang.

The FSB

So WE were the russian hackers all along

they use the hostgator babygator plan

Jow Forums was moved to an off-planet orbital server about 8 years ago.

How much storage space do you estimate they need to run the whole site?

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>206.188 actiive users

yeah right

To run this place, probably no more than a couple TB(if that) since there are limits on post length, number of accessible threads, and file sizes at all times. Archiving is a different story, but I would bet theres a couple of different agencies that handle that part pro bono.

That's completely ridiculous, everyone knows that Jow Forums is hosted on "The Raft." An off-shore vessel piloted by an AI known as "The Captain." Occasionally people claim to report sightings of the raft, but know one really knows where it is, not even the admins. It isn't in anyone's best interest to know where the raft is.

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dataminer pls go !!!!!

tell us more

It's funny to think that. It's not that much after all. Why not raise the file limits globally then, just add a few more hard drives.

And pay for more bandwidth

It wasn't that long ago that hiro was complaining about bandwidth costs and even during the moot days he would complain how much it cost. Pic related is from 2015 and I imagine it has increased a lot since then, so I don't see it being increased any time soon.

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Yeah this. The only reason why moot gave Jow Forums away was that it made little to no profit anymore and desu i doubt that it ever made much profit at all. Why invest in an website that does not even have emotional value or some shit to anyone and makes you poor?

moot was a faggot and did it for free

>tfw you were in the threads where these were originally posted

jesus I need to stop visiting this site

how much hardware do you think it takes to run this place?

I doubt that. Even Wikipedia says that it has been SOLD. If he really did it for free he is as retarded as this site is.

I’d guess they could still run Jow Forums on a couple shitty ebay-secondhand dell servers

this or a bunch of chinkpads

I once hosted a very liberal, honest and lightly commercialized Minecraft server that cost around $600 a month in server expenses(not counting dev time I put in myself, writing plugins) and netted in around $90. Then I """""sold""""" i for 200$. Was I doing it for free or did I sell it?

Anyone knows what Jow Forums is worth in 2018?

>volunteers
HE
DOES
IT
FOR
FREE

>comparing a minecraft server no one gives a shit about to fucking Jow Forums
Just the domain Jow Forums.org must be worth milions by now.

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>It wasn't that long ago that hiro was complaining about bandwidth costs
That's why you should always, always attach images to your posts, even the garbage white-noise ones that just add to the post count. That way you're contributing, in a very small but gradual way, to the financial ruin of the moron who runs the place.

(...and, as a bonus, maybe one or two of the worthless archivers that are always screeching about being low on funds because gotta carefully archive Cock Core Thread #353 on the trash board for future generations!!.)

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stop posting any time

I Will Never Stop Posting

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Gorillions, user. It's no longer the 90's. Buying toys.com will not get you a $500MM series A

I wonder why any company would ever want to host something like Jow Forums.

Probably not but money is money.

Is there anything known about the software that powers Jow Forums? Front end or back end?

FreeBSD

kusaba x and ubuntu 11 KDE on a mac mini

How would someone know?

moot mentioned it how it was a mistake as he had much harder time finding support compared to Linux. I think it was in the comment section of his post about minor transfer optimizations like using 4cdn to save some bytes.

They don't want to host something. They sell servers or rack space and bandwidth and nothing more.

There is also a lot of PHP behind the site. Also you know that occasional image swap bug? It has been around for years and years now and still isn't fixed.
desuarchive.org/q/thread/746244/#q760725

Why does that happen? Have never seen it.

Don't think it was ever fully explained but it is normally the thumbnail that gets swapped with another image. You can usually tell it has happend by the thumbnail being distorted and the resolution listed doesn't seem to match its aspect ratio along with replies shouting something like "MOOOOOT". Probably some sort of race condition or cache flushing problem since apparently it is only a one way thing.

When the fuck is it not. I think your retarded for choosing to browse the internet with other retards. Remember if you ride the short bus people will look at you like you have autism.