I’ve just completed moving lemmy.ca and piefed.ca away from using Cloudflare’s proxy service, this means traffic now comes directly from our server instead of being routed through any US based companies. Pixelfed.ca is still on deflect.ca for the moment.
Let me know please if you run into any problems or errors!
Note that in order to avoid making too many major changes at once, our DNS is still hosted by cloudflare. I’ll be moving that away from them later this week
What happened to deflect.ca? Was it just Cloudflare under the covers?
Performance wasn’t great since their nodes are East Coast and our server is west coast.
Thank you SO much for this! It may seem like a small step, but its an incredibly ambitious leap for a small project like Fedecan to make do without Cloudflare
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Wooooooo!
Moving to non US companies seems like a good thing these days. As much as I do developer work I’m not overly knowledgeable on these types of services especially when they need to scale up to a level needed for this, but awesome to hear.
what provider do you use to host the actual instance on?
been looking for a good one for some publicly facing services, went with xenyth, seems alright but they charge in USD despite being canadian
We own our own hardware in a datacenter, so I can’t help =)
If you want to manage a VPS, I have been happy with OVH. Very cheap, hosted in Montreal. Not Canadian, but European owned.
Sasktel apparently does some form of cloud infrastructure now, haven’t actually looked into it but they are looking to expand their customer base to across Canada
I use Servarica out of Montreal but I checked my invoices and it says USD as well
Well done!
Very cool, good work
What are you planning to use for DNS? I am looking to ditch Cloudflare too, only remaining thing is DNS
Dang, now thelemmy.club might lose the title of the only Lemmy instance listed under Canada at join-lemmy.org lol
Thanks!
Did you use their WAF?
Cloudflare? no
