How much do you think their aws bill was per month for hundreds of servers? Their traffic bill alone was probably worth it already. Don’t contract this work to ibm or deloitte or something and you’ll be fine
> surviving deplatforming is much more difficult than armchair orange website architects seem to acknowledge.
Somehow the internet is full of websites (some of which probably had much higher traffic) that did just fine though
If Parler had self-hosted, would the potential wrath of the media just have turned to their upstream telco or whoever instead of AWS?