Posted as a diary to avoid getting lost in the other discussions...

That's a good question, and I'm sure the Secret Cabal will answer it most expeditiously.

The hosting requirements are absolutely generic, in terms of web software and database. So the bones of it is a matter of having regular, secure offline backups of both, and a few clues as to alternative hosting services if the site's host were to be closed down, or evict us.

It's easy enough to host the site off a home PC, for example, if it were required. The harder part is the DNS stuff (name resolution, so that people can still find the site at its new home). I confess I don't have a clue about that.

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Why would we be DDOSd ? We certainly pour considerable derision over the heads of the great and good, but I doubt that we appear on the radar of the teabagging right for the simple reasons that;-

1. in opinion forming terms we're pretty insignificant,
   
2. they probably don't understand what we're saying.

keep to the Fen Causeway

Secret Cabal answers: I believe there's a daily backup (afaik, anyway).

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There is a plan.

Me thinks the greatest risk of DDOS-effect is if get up a diary that gathers the attention of - for example - the readership of DailyKos. Getting thousand of calls from bots or from actual readers has the same effect.

The effect at least used to be known as "getting slashdoted" from small sites mentioned at /. getting more traffic then they could cope with.

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