Dear zap.stream DDOSer, may your karma strike you hard.
Discussion
Wen sovereign stream stack?
It's there! people just have to deploy it, set their price for using their endpoint and announce it.
https://github.com/v0l/zap-stream-core?tab=readme-ov-file#zapstream-core
I know. Looking forward to it.
We just had a PCR show with Kieran last Friday. ✊🏼
that's not a good solution. Zap stream is needed. The majority of steamers need zap stream to do the hard work for them. Only a tiny minority of users are capable and have the time to run their own steaming host like me and from my experience it's a bit pain and not for the average person.
Zap stream needs to investigate whether it's their site that is being targeted or it's the hosting company that is being targeted which is causing all the sites to not function.
They should talk to the network administrator of the hosting company or they should find a new hosting company.
MAKE ZAP STREAM GREAT AGAIN!
mar, just because Kieran doesn't talk about everything he does behind the scenes to get a grip on this doesn't mean he isn't. He's dedicated a lot of time (and money) to this issue over the last two weeks.
Also, unfortunately zap.stream (in itself), in it's current form, is a single point of failure challenge on a decentralised protocol. This is why Kieran has put a lot of work into the new zap.stream core as it exists right now. We need to decentralise everything on and around the nostr protocol and live events are no exception. However, bear in mind that the current (new) core literally just entered production. There is more to come.
Think of it as an Alby-Hub alike platform that can be deployed by anyone who has the means to run it creating a network of hosts for nostr live events. Anyone who provides an endpoint can get paid for the bandwidth usage if a creator uses their endpoint. Creators would have a vaster selection of stream serves (including in their region) and the resources required to attack such a network of endpoints gradually explode.
TLDR - we're still early
nostr:npub1aeh2zw4elewy5682lxc6xnlqzjnxksq303gwu2npfaxd49vmde6qcq4nwx setup restream for us at whatfest, just in case. But sovereignty is the future for nostr:npub1h8gzew8am6cezuq7cpjgudldra40hgnruqrqlsrqnxnzs5wjtczqztps02 👀
We actually ran into some unexpected issues connecting the zap.stream RTMP with Restream and ended up running it over Cloudflare. There was a lot of triage happening during the event. Hope we can solve those issues soon, because it was a struggle to do it live.
are they really attacking zap stream or are they simply attacking the hosting company which is affecting all the sites on their severs? because according to their status page it wasn't only zap stream that is being affected.
The hosting company needs to put pressure on their networks administrator and try to listen the attacks through the main router facing the internet.
369 investigate!
nostr:nprofile1qqsv0t9t78ldyqd9xxz7fhz7p346u279mvvaww4lsszntuc9mrc9rqqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7gkhp6z hosting company is nostr:nprofile1qqsx8lnrrrw9skpulctgzruxm5y7rzlaw64tcf9qpqww9pt0xvzsfmgpr9mhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5q3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7qgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmq82esgy's basement 😂
He self-hosts it 😅
So he’s handling everything by himself?
He’s the network administrator, server admin, developer, help desk, janitor so basically the entire IT department?
That’s rough. I’ve been in that position before, and it’s no joke. You have to monitor the network 24/7. Big corporate hosting companies have massive infrastructure and advanced systems to detect and mitigate DDoS attacks and other threats. Smaller companies usually don’t have that kind of protection, which makes them easy targets for bot farms.
You can stop the attacks, but it takes solid router hardware and smart software. It’s a full-time job, no doubt about it.
I hope he succeeds because the average person needs a site like zap stream for exposure and zap steam does everything for us, no need to learn server administration.