>>1276426It's close to over. Not certain but it's going there. And as
>>1276445 said, the ISP problem is pretty serious. And then there is the ddos protection. Even if you get hosted, you can't do shit without a decent ddos guard. Josh explained it like this:
>In the world of ISPs, there are very few real players. There are 15 tier 1 networks in existence. There are many more ISPs, but they generally all connect to a Tier 1 network.>Additionally, there are even fewer ISPs which provide DDoS protection. These companies (Path, Telia, Voxility, Zayo) are more politically charged than a normal ISP. Without them, should you manage to peer, you are not on the Internet if you cannot handle DDoS attacks yourself>A DDoS attack can be between 1Gbps and 100Gbps or higher. A 10Gbps line is about $700/mo. This scales pretty linearly, with some bulk discounts. Not all routers can handle 10Gbps, and few routers can handle 100Gbps. Those are also thousands of dollars each. >Even the companies that do want to help are often underneath companies that do not want to help. The datacenter Worldstream in the Netherlands has blocked us, and thus any company that operates out of Worldstream cannot support us.The thing is, there are a handful of companies deciding what's on the internet and what isn't. And unless you have tens of millions of dollars to build and maintain your own infrastructure, if they decide you're off the internet; you're off the internet period. Therefore, it turns out that a bunch of transvestites backed up by a few glowniggers and butthurt Janke and friends have more control on the internet than you and I can possibly imagine.
It's not completely over for the farms, worst case scenario they go completely off the clearnet, however, this means that what I said in the previous sentence is true.
