8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Internet hate forum 8chan has gone down — and gotten its new host, the Seattle-based company Epik, kicked off one of its hardware leases as well. Epik began working with 8chan today after web services giant Cloudflare cut off service to the site, following the latest of at least three mass shootings linked to 8chan. But Stanford researcher Alex Stamos noted that Epik seemed to lease servers from another company, Voxility. And when Voxility discovered the content, it cut ties with Epik almost immediately.
“As soon as we were notified of the content that Epik was hosting, we made the decision to totally ban them,” Voxility business development VP Maria Cerbu told The Verge. Cerbu said it was unlikely that Voxility would work with Epik…
