How involved would it be to move a site like parler.com to new servers?

[bean-aid]

I'm getting "IT" feedback that it's very involved to move a site that gets a fraction of traffic of FB and twit and it seems very manufactured.

How involved is it?

[NatalieK]

a simple upload transition, usually transfer is negotiated and done by the new hosting company from server to server...

a few hours for propagation, no server downtime

[Cremz]

Originally Posted by NatalieK

a simple upload transition, usually transfer is negotiated and done by the new hosting company from server to server...

a few hours for propagation, no server downtime

you're really simplifying everything
If they are using a ton of services from aws, like serverless functions, a lot of microservices and/or things like kubernetes, it's not gonna be easy finding a new hosting company that offers all of them. Maybe alibaba :D Microsoft, google all banned them.
But if they just run a php script and a db, it should be a fast move.

[Dmcontent]

Actually is not that hard to move sites among servers , it will take time for large sites but is pretty easy

[NatalieMojoHost]

That vastly depends on how their system is set up, and if the environments will match exactly or not. The simple part of moving data to a new location may take days and even weeks. Setting up database clusters, multiple load-balanced web servers, configuring all the automation and transcoding processes for content - all of that can take weeks and even months. Ideally, the site migration would be done in the background without putting the live site offline until the very end and the switchover, but if they're already down - who knows. It's even worse if they're pulling all of that out of backups.

[Brit in Cambodia]

Problem is they were using AWS,

When writing stuff for the large cloud platforms (GoogleCloud, Amazon Webservices Microsoft Azure) You naturally intermingle your code in their infrastructure so it's hard to unpick really really hard to unpick with 24 hours notice...

Not only that sounds like no US companies are willing to work with them, sounds like they have lost Twilo, so they need to build that up as well and their legal team all in one day.

My guessing is that they'll either go to Epik or they'll move to hosting provider in Poland after their proposed freedom of speech online bill.

Of course I suspect Bidens administration will enact a new patriot act which forces ISP's to ban sites which promote hatespeech especially abroad.

[celandina]

Parler is a scumbag site. Nobody outside N. Korea or Iran will host these asseholes. Not even Poles or Hungarians

[MaDalton]

EU companies have to follow EU laws to a certain extent, there is no way this is going to be hosted inside the EU.

[pimpmaster9000]

it would have to involve literate people who have above chimp IQ...this would be hard to find for somebody like parler folk tho...