Topic: New forums? (Read 2661 times)

There should be some kind of notice whenever the forums IP is going to change, as Chinese users have to manually specify the IP in their hosts file because the forum is blocked there.

I really like the idea of having a bunch of firewall servers which handle the TCP handshake and then send real traffic to the real server(s) via a GRE tunnel. Since it works at the TCP level, the firewall servers do not need the HTTPS key and aren't particularly sensitive security-wise. It doesn't protect against application-level attacks, but generally those are easier to protect against by just blacklisting or limiting misbehaving IPs. I wish that more companies would offer this service. The forum's previous DDoS protection did this, but it was some amateur operation which had its own reliability issues, making it unacceptable. Incapsula was willing to do a special deal, but their price was ridiculous. I think that someone could make money by buying a few dozen servers distributed across the globe and selling GRE-tunnel-based DDoS protection from SYN floods and maybe also bandwidth leeching (by tracking when new IPs start using way more traffic than anyone else), ideally with anycast IP addresses to distribute traffic among the firewall servers. I think that you could do it largely with standard iptables rules, though it'd be very complicated. If I was setting up a service like this, I would oversell like crazy -- each site is only actually DDoSed a very small percentage of time, so you only need enough ordinary capacity to protect against one or two active attacks --, but then have some sort of backup plan to add more servers in an emergency (maybe by spinning up EC2/DigitalOcean/Vultr instances, which are expensive compared to a dedicated server but quickly available in case more capacity is needed now).

Why doesn't it sound like something theymos would do?

Do you live with the guy?

It's defiantly hosted on AWS.

Is this true, or is there some kind of DDoS protection going through AWS?

The forum's WHOIS is showing as AWS, however hosting the forum on a cloud provider does not sound like something theymos would do.

As the forum is right now aswell.

I would guess design is a point that comes a little later in the developing processs.
From what I've heard, there will be several "skins" available and the current design isn't final yet, either.
Besides that, looks aren't everything.

I usually like to embrace change, but seriously change for change sake is just crap,  dont like the look of the beta site at all 

'News: To be able to use the next phase of the beta forum software, please ensure that your email address is correct/functional.'

Where's the new software??

I usually like to embrace change, but seriously change for change sake is just crap

dont like the look of the beta site at all

Hosted on AMAZON AWS

Looks like they are using epochtalk. That's pretty new stuff built on modern technologies. Will be prone to bugs and hacks for sure.
https://github.com/epochtalk/epochtalk

Lots can be improved. I'll try to hack the shit out of it on my free time to help harden it.