@JackKeeley_ @mdhardeman @MalwareTechBlog Your intuition seems to be correct.

New theory: Parler is indeed now hosted in Europe. Thanks to some triangulation assistance from @jlammerts, round-trip times from Europe back to their origin server aren't long enough to make it across the Atlantic…only 40ms from Amsterdam.

TBD exactly where though.

— Ian Littman (@iansltx) January 19, 2021

@d0wnunda @troyhunt Not certain it’s hosted *in* Russia at this point, but it’s definitely somewhere in Europe. RTT…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351446872787984384

@stebets @svenvarkel @troyhunt Yeah, it’s hard to run a big, inefficient app when no cloud provider will let you autoscale on their infra.

@rawkode @jlammerts Hmm…question is where the origin is. ddos-guard wouldn’t be there. Not sure if it’d be Epik e…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351446294296977410

New theory: Parler is indeed now hosted in Europe. Thanks to some triangulation assistance from @jlammerts, round-t…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351443154415869953

@jmikola Sounds like edge cache hits for the first three, then origin pulls for the rest, from wherever ddos-guard…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351441831511416833

@jlammerts Yep!

So, given that NYC (generally the closest US point of presence to Europe) is 100ms away, and Parle…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351441228903182336