This news article was brought to my attention today. A crypto-to-crypto business was 'taken down' by an authority-in-power. It's unclear if the government performed a physical attack on the server, or simply confiscated the domain name, as described in this YouTube video on how government censorship works. I suspect the latter, as it's much easier. But let's assume the former: a server take-down.
The about page of this site describes how to create a decentralized front-end and serve it with a back-end web server, like Express.js. But how can this technology be used to protect against a server take-down; a physical attack on a server?
The answer is running a Tor hidden service over
a .onion domain name.
Here is an example. Using Tor browser, you can navigate to this sites onion address: http://f6lfmasvo2x3ogrr.onion/. However, you can also access any IPFS gateway through Tor browser too. If you navigate to the latest copy on IPFS, you'll be served the website that way too!
Since Tor browser can access .onion back end web services, you can now safely
serve up dynamic content and services, like a REST API. Your front end website
is uncensorable, and your back end server is hidden!
If Bestmixer.io was built this way, they could still be operating. At best, a government could only seize their domain name. But any Tor domain name or IPFS-based front-end would still be up an running, and still talking to their protected server back-end.