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		gscott on Jan 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler Parler set themselves up for this by not going with their own servers but wimping out and using a cloud provider. Get a high speed line and host it yourself straight up. Save money too.

ketamine__ on Jan 13, 2021 | [–]

I'm guessing Rebekah Mercer didn't give them enough money to build their own datacenter.

thu2111 on Jan 13, 2021 | [–]

Then the left would have gone after whichever hosting provider they did use. And it obviously doesn't help with smartphone apps getting banned.

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