One of Lim's early projects was OrcaTech, a service he says was intended to be used by website owners to test their websites' abilities to withstand
distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The website was also able to be used to levy DDoS attacks against others; Lim said he never investigated whether it was used in harmful ways. After dropping out of college, Lim founded BitMitigate in 2017 in Vancouver, Washington, when he was nineteen years old. Beginning in August 2017, BitMitigate provided security services to
The Daily Stormer, a
neo-Nazi website which had just been denied service by
Cloudflare after publishing an article mocking Heather Heyer, the victim of a
vehicle ramming attack at the white supremacist
Unite the Right rally in
Charlottesville,
Virginia earlier that month. In 2018, Lim began to be mentored by
Rob Monster, the founder and CEO of the web services company
Epik. In August 2019, BitMitigate began providing services to 8chan, an
imageboard forum that is home to the far-right
QAnon conspiracy theory and which has been linked to multiple mass shootings. BitMitigate's decision to provide services to 8chan resulted in Voxility, a web services company that had been renting servers to BitMitigate and Epik, terminating their relationship with both companies.
VanwaTech In approximately August 2019, Lim left Epik and announced that he had created VanwaTech, a
web hosting and website security company also based in Vancouver, Washington. Through VanwaTech, Lim again began providing services to
The Daily Stormer and to
8chan. According to Lim, he remained a partial owner of Epik after his departure as CTO. On September 6, 2022, Lim confirmed that VanwaTech had begun providing
CDN services to the forum
Kiwi Farms, a site previously dropped by
Cloudflare and
DDoS-Guard following protests related to the
doxxing and
harassment of Clara Sorrenti. Lim stated, "We maintain a firm commitment to our role as a neutral provider of internet services and not an internet censor." In approximately May 2023, VanwaTech suspended all services and disabled their interface. The website displayed the message, "VanwaTech LLC has suspended all services. This status page is a temporary courtesy and will be shut down soon." It was later updated to include, "Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of our services at our sole discretion". == Views ==