Why are you treating the site’s most valuable asset, the database, as the server company’s problem?
Also you could probably drop your hosting costs dramatically and reduce the amount of security patching you have to do by moving to AWS instead of blue host or whatever
Date: October 26th, 2026 2:09 PM Author: The Penis
if I made a backup/alt version i'd still put it on aws. aws policies aren't even that bad they don't require you to moderate user content. and they give you time to remove it if someone reports you and it violates their policy. i'd like to try it as an experiment. xo doesn't even attract much attention anymore. i want to actually see how long it takes before you get someone who sits there and starts systematically reporting all the stuff to aws that they don'tlike to try to get it taken down
Date: October 26th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: The Penis
I know aws famously took parler down because they said they failed to moderate speech that specifically incited political violence, but idk if I have seen any examples where they terminated someone just for not moderating slurs and edgy political content. Something like xo seems different because it's not a conventionally political forum, and when anything is permitted to be said, it ends up getting a surrealist layer to it. Most of it ends up just looking like elaborate performance and inside joke. Would be interesting to try out as a test case, but I think obviously wherever the main site is now is still the best case for it considering how well and for how long it has endured.
Date: October 26th, 2026 2:49 PM Author: The Penis
yeah I agree. it's different it was a massive social media operation, not niche. still not sure how long an xo alt would fare on aws, depending on what happens. could always move to alexhost if it doesn't work. moldovans do not care about offensive speech.
Date: October 26th, 2026 2:31 PM Author: הדרך היחידה לגן עדן היא מחקר משפטי ()
Some old threads are missing. http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589177&forum_id=2 <-- this thread from 2024 used to be "Women love guys with sense of humor, so bring print out of 'By You' to next date." At least some scholarship has been lost, I'm pretty sure this wasn't shitmodded prior to this incident
It also looks like you can only access 1000 pages of threads, meaning all threads created before May of 2023 are gone unless they've been bumped in the past three years