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I don't know a lot about web hosting. Is it possible to host a website with an IP address only and no domain?

I'm thinking of alternative DDOS protection in case services like Cloudflare refuse to protect a site. Namely hosting the site across several addresses and dropping an address once it starts getting hit. This has the advantage that you can start to identify details of the person performing the attack based on which IP addresses they find.

Do my ideas make any sense or am I being retarded?

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Crazy Horse Malt Beverage 11mo ago

it's a good start but you'll be hard pressed to get users to use IP addresses instead of domains.

Scoundrel 11mo ago

Yeah, I already know what moving to Tor does to website traffic, I imagine that moving to a raw IP address would have a similar effect. Still though...

One of the first results when you search e621.net is actually the site's Twitter page where they report whenever the site is having problems. Imagine if one day e6 posted an IP address. Sure, it would be one extra click, but it wouldn't be super inconvenient for users.

Though if you started having to use DMs then I can see it getting pretty bad.

Kevin Alfred Strom 11mo ago

Web sites inherently are always hosted at IP addresses, not domain names. But most of us go through the DNS layer to reach them, because that lets us use nifty and memorable names instead of strings of numbers.

Scoundrel 11mo ago

I am aware. The problem with DNS is that it makes it very easy for adversaries to continue finding your site unless you completely change your branding. In this case, the idea is to temporarally give up on DNS and spread the IP address through approaches closer to word of mouth.

If the adversary continues to find your website, then you can continue making things just a little bit harder and harder until you either figure out who it is and stop giving them the address, or until they give up on taking down the site.

Then, when they've given up, the site can pop right back up again at its previous URL.