Is the hoster responsible for those who tamed?

    Today, all day I read forums that discuss the hot topic of recent days: “3FN Blackout”. The same topic ran through the pages of the habrasociety.

    This problem touched me most directly - dozens of sites (mine and partner) are unavailable, mail does not work, materials created from the moment of the last external backup are lost, there are penalties for advertising, prepaid money is lost and urgently needs to be found for payment from another hoster plus time to move.

    Judging by the materials read, one gets the feeling that only those who did not have an account on 3FN are happy with such a development of events. This is more like a mixture of positions “my hut with the edge” and “let the competitorthe neighbor’s cow will die. ” How ugly, huh? But you, clever fellow citizens, are sure that only spammers, virus writers and pedophiles "lived" on 3FN? And didn’t you think that out of more than 15,000 clients, most of them conducted completely legal activities and posted content that met American and international laws? I, and many of my partners, chose this hoster for fast servers and competent support. After Ukrainian and Russian hosters, on 3FN my sites just flew. For more than a year of placement - 15 minutes of one-time downtime associated with the fall of the hard drive, accompanied by a polite apology for support in ICQ.

    Before you say "rightly so," think about how this sets a precedent. If the US Federal Chamber of Commerce such tricks get away with it, this can be considered the beginning of the end of the free network. This is what happens, now the feds can afford to cover up any data center on the territory of which "illegitimate content" was "lit up"? And if you consider that the bulk of the serious data centers and providers are somehow connected with the United States, will they soon shut off oxygen three times a day after eating?

    Before saying "now there will be less SPAM and viruses," I advise you to read spammer, hacker and SEO forums. The people who earn hundreds of dollars a day use networks from duplicate servers in different data centers of the world and resumed their activity after a few hours (those who stopped at all). In the first place, the so-called “Mere mortals” - owners of small projects on Shared or VPS hosting, in the budget of which hosting is one of the main expense items. It is this category of customers that is now randomly looking for where and for what means to move, and also with horror looks at the dates of the latest backups and estimates the amount of forfeits to advertisers.

    How many start-ups so beloved by the habrasociety could cripple the shutdown for several days and the move with a partial loss of data, I can hardly imagine. After all, not by hearsay I know how to do this project around the clock with a minimum break for sleep, and then, after a month from the moment of backup, which was always postponed because all the time it took to patching holes and screwing up features, to listen to excuses from the hoster like "our backup was done on the same screw where the system was and it all died at once."

    Today I paid for a new hosting, and in anticipation of its activation, I deploy backups all day on the backup server, try to pull at least something from Google Cache and try to explain to clients what I have to do with spammers and why this site (their clients) suddenly stopped work.

    And now let's think together whether we are insured against why we can close the site or data center in one fell swoop. Indeed, on any forum, any visitor can insert a forbidden picture, or a link to a porn site or warez portal. What will we do then if the relevant authorities notice this before the moderators? Or how to prove that you are not a camel if any of the free email services considers your newsletter to customers to be SPAM? Or how to explain to search engines that a page with links to partner sites is not search SPAM? And if I express my personal opinion on any organization on my personal blog or post a link to the works of a friend DJ, how can I explain that I did not infringe on anyone's rights?

    Don't you think that the vaunted “presumption of innocence” automatically turns into a “guilty assumption” on the sole ground that the resource is owned by a person from the countries of “special attention”? Do not you think that now any Western hoster, liberal with respect to immigrants from the countries of the former USSR or himself having Slavic roots, now automatically walks along the razor's edge? Maybe this is another witch hunt, where the easiest way to blame someone who is difficult to defend? Or is it just a custom-made action to loudly displace a strong competitor from the market during a crisis and a downtime in many hosting providers? Call me a data center, on the servers of which illegal content has never been "run" and I will tell you that you are lying.

    Filling question: why are sanctions applied to the hoster and not to owners of illegal resources?
    My answer is this: it is the US national policy to shoot sparrows from a cannon. Don't like the group of thugs? Declare war on their country! Don't like spammers? Bomb hoster! Do not find parallels?

    The Washington post compares webmasters struggling to recover their resources with rats fleeing a ship. How can a representative of the “independent press” of the “most democratic state” allow himself to speak in such a tone? If they continue to use such methods, then most sites that are not related to American government or commercial structures will permanently move to Europe, from which the “mega-power” will lose more than it was going to save.

    I think that trampling a serious hoster was a logical step after the TPB processto show that the legal machine is ready to move anyone whom the finger of the financial center points to.

    The article leaves more questions than answers and this is a good reason to think about whether all the questions asked above can be considered rhetorical.

    It was written chaotically, for it was boiling. I understand that the respected habrasociety can not appreciate this post. I agree with the fact that this is not what you are used to seeing in the sandbox. But there is a great desire to convey my point of view to an audience whose reader I have been for quite some time.

    UPD: For this post I received an invite to Habr, which turned out to be a pleasant surprise)
    Thank's 2 vlad2000plus

    UPD2: Help with karma, please, there is a desire to transfer to "Hosting".

    UPD3: Thanks for the karma, transferred.

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