DDoS Guard doesn’t actually host servers, and it’s unclear how much of their infrastructure is physically in the Russian Federation. The IP address that acts as the front door for parler.com right now is registered as being in Belize.
Not trying to say the Russia connection isn’t real. It totally is. Just… we have even less insight into where traffic is going than even this would imply. I’m expecting to find out they’re using a Russian hosting company for colocation in addition to DDoS Guard for protecting their front door.
(Also, kinda sick of seeing Vickery’s tweet. If during an outage I had thrown a splash page up somewhere and then told my boss, “We’re back up!” I’d have been fired. parler isn’t up right now. They’re scrambling to rebuild their infrastructure, and by their estimates won’t be online until February.)