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Lemmy.ca and piefed.ca are no longer cloudflare proxied (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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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

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[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What happened to deflect.ca? Was it just Cloudflare under the covers?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Performance wasn't great since their nodes are East Coast and our server is west coast.

[–] juslemmybee@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 days ago

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

🫡

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 54 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Wooooooo!

[–] rndmdsplyname@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 52 points 4 days ago

We own our own hardware in a datacenter, so I can't help =)

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 21 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

If you want to manage a VPS, I have been happy with OVH. Very cheap, hosted in Montreal. Not Canadian, but European owned.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 4 days ago

I use Servarica out of Montreal but I checked my invoices and it says USD as well

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 11 points 4 days ago

Well done!

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 17 points 4 days ago

Very cool, good work

[–] Yoddel_Hickory@piefed.ca 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What are you planning to use for DNS? I am looking to ditch Cloudflare too, only remaining thing is DNS

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago

Desec.io

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 12 points 4 days ago

Dang, now thelemmy.club might lose the title of the only Lemmy instance listed under Canada at join-lemmy.org lol

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Thanks!

[–] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Did you use their WAF?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Cloudflare? no