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Gab server costs in 2019: $1,175 a month.
No Way' Gab Has 800,000 Users, Web Host Says
February 14, 2019
Gab, the floundering social media network that serves as an organizing hub for white supremacists, is inflating its number of users in federal securities filings relied on by investors and regulators, a software engineer for Gab’s web hosting company Sibyl System Ltd. tells Hatewatch.
In a series of interviews, emails and text messages, Lilac Kapul said Gab’s claims in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings on Dec. 19 and Jan. 28 of more than 835,000 users greatly exceeds the internet infrastructure capacity that London-based Sibyl is providing to Gab. Kapul, a resident of Brisbane, Australia, also said Gab’s user data indicates that most of the active users on the site signed up soon after it was launched in August 2016, raising questions about Gab’s claims of rapid growth...
Kapul said that one would expect a website with 800,000 active users to have tens of thousands of active users per day and about 20,000 to 30,000 active users in a given hour. “That’s probably at least five to 10 times what I expect [the Gab] site could handle,” she said.
Based on Kapul’s estimates, if Gab’s active user base approaches anything near the claims made in the SEC filings, it wouldn’t have enough servers to support the traffic, and the site would crash. Gab appears to have a significant amount of cash available to purchase additional servers, which constitute a relatively low expense. Gab states in the SEC filings it is paying Sibyl $1,175 a month.
No Way' Gab Has 800,000 Users, Web Host Says
February 14, 2019
Gab, the floundering social media network that serves as an organizing hub for white supremacists, is inflating its number of users in federal securities filings relied on by investors and regulators, a software engineer for Gab’s web hosting company Sibyl System Ltd. tells Hatewatch.
In a series of interviews, emails and text messages, Lilac Kapul said Gab’s claims in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings on Dec. 19 and Jan. 28 of more than 835,000 users greatly exceeds the internet infrastructure capacity that London-based Sibyl is providing to Gab. Kapul, a resident of Brisbane, Australia, also said Gab’s user data indicates that most of the active users on the site signed up soon after it was launched in August 2016, raising questions about Gab’s claims of rapid growth...
Kapul said that one would expect a website with 800,000 active users to have tens of thousands of active users per day and about 20,000 to 30,000 active users in a given hour. “That’s probably at least five to 10 times what I expect [the Gab] site could handle,” she said.
Based on Kapul’s estimates, if Gab’s active user base approaches anything near the claims made in the SEC filings, it wouldn’t have enough servers to support the traffic, and the site would crash. Gab appears to have a significant amount of cash available to purchase additional servers, which constitute a relatively low expense. Gab states in the SEC filings it is paying Sibyl $1,175 a month.