I like using Cloudflare because I enjoy not being able to visit a website hosted in the other fucking room in my house.
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@aud Not sure what you mean by proxying DNS, but unless you need the DDoS protection, putting your site behind any $5-10 VPS gets most of the same value you'd get from Cloudflare.
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@[email protected] this is good to know! I might do that when I'm employed again, then.
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@[email protected] One of the appeals of this vs. a VPS is I have more bandwidth, although it turns out that running a single user fedi instance, even when federating with like, a thousand+ servers, really doesn't generate as much traffic as I'd feared.
a VPS, I theoretically have a limit where I start paying... way under it, though. -
@[email protected] ... oh, erm, actually, it's eleven thousand. Not a thousand. I'm federating with that many instances? Jesus.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] thanks! I'll check out contabo. I'm currently Sharkey which I think was a little harder on the Vultr instance I used for a bit than maybe other fedi stacks. Not sure what or why though (Sharkey is great, don't get me wrong; could have been my config, my usage, my expectation, my etc)...
I do run other services/pages through the same thing thatfire.asta.lgbt
are on although they're not federated so they don't generate nearly as much traffic (it's almost always just me) and probably use barely any CPU time. -
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@[email protected] @[email protected] OH. derp, right. I knew that when you said it, and then somehow forgot when Anna said it.
In my defense I had to take benadryl for allergies so I'm a sleepy kitten. -
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@[email protected] @[email protected] yeah, I totally get that. I've gone ahead and done it all specifically to get some experience in self hosting so that hilariously I can avoid ol fashflare... but then it turns out that I don't really have enough confidence in my hardening ability to go without their DNS proxy. They have my domain, too, so I'm sure it'll be a pain to get it back out.
I like having the much beefier machine, though, relative to the cloud instance. And I want to be able to host with as little corporate crap as possible. So I should try and look into switching that element up this year.