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DMCA and redundancy (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by EriksonEnterprises@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hello,

I'm currently dealing with someone who is targeting me with fake/false DMCA notices in an attempt to cause harm to my business. I'm going to deal with the legal side of that and that's not what this post is for, my main question is this:

If I had a "frontend" VPS server with NGINX on it, and then that server forwards to another separate VPS server - would this mitigate loss where only the NGINX VPS server gets locked down from a DMCA? Or would it somehow get my underlying server shut down still?

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[–] dotinho@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That’s what VPNs do, and people need to use in some country’s.

I’m not sure, but you are the owner of both VPS, anyway is related to you.

[–] bobbarker4444@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Presumably they wouldn't necessarily know the 2nd server even exists if they're just hitting the reverse proxy. As long as both the reverse proxy and the origin server aren't under the same VPS provider I would expect that to be fine.

Reverse proxy gets targeted, shut down, you spin up a new one somewhere else and keep going.

[–] EriksonEnterprises@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that sounds right to me, okay sounds good. I also found some offshore VPS servers who ignore DMCA unless it becomes court ordered legal matter, so that'll stop a lot of this crap too

Thank you so much

[–] Zomphie_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If I may ask, are you from the USA?

[–] skernel@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Rent a vps somewhere where dmca is ignored (there are a lot but not ask me to make name, just search on google and you’ll find them) then connect it to your server through vpn (OpenVPN or WireGuard). Setup on new vps a reverse proxy (haproxy or NGiNX). In this way your main server will not be affected and dmca will be ignored.