GameGod

I'm going to test out Lunanode, thanks for the recommendation. I'm currently playing around with Xenyth Cloud too and so far so good. I'm keeping a spreadsheet of the sysbench scores of all the Canadian VPSes I've tried and I'll try to post it once I have a decent set of data to share.

Does anyone know of any other Canadian VPS providers? (from companies based in Canada)

The pricing seems super reasonable. It looks like it supports a calendar too. Anyone know if their webmail client is decent?

You need that SRE team you said you don't have. :)

this is the saddest, stupidest, low effort troll account - see comment history

I'm sold on the sales pitch for it, but deflect.ca resolves to a Hetzner box in their Washington DC datacenter. I have a 112 ms ping to it from Toronto.

How do you sell a CDN when your own website is hosted out of the country at a PoP that's that far away?

If we can somehow entice Chinese car companies manufacture here

I think that's part of the point of auto tariffs.

I totally understand. It sucks that there's not really any options in between these two extremes.

If I can ramble a bit more - forget the Anycast bit. If you run your own DNS server(s), you can just configure them to respond based on the geographic location of the requester. PowerDNS is pretty easy to set up for this. You could run your own DNS just for the image domain. You basically run PowerDNS authoritative server, set up your zones and the geoip stuff, then slap dnsdist in front of it to be publicly exposed. dnsdist has anti-DDoS features and loadbalancing in it, in case you need it down the road.

Since it's just for static images, you can have a higher TTL so you don't need to worry about distributing the DNS servers. (ie. the DNS lookup might not be super fast since it could go across the country, but it doesn't matter since that lookup is only going to happen every TTL period on each client, which can be high.)

One suggestion to consider for Lemmy.ca is to move your images and other easily-cacheable content to a different domain or subdomain, to give you more flexibility.

eg. If you serve your static assets off of lemmyimages.ca, then you can have only that behind a CDN, Cloudflare, or some other hosting with DDoS scrubbing. It gives you more flexibility to cope with various situations.

2tb a week isn't much (6 mbps on average?). It's pretty easy to set up nginx as a caching reverse proxy and spin that up on a couple of VPSes, but the annoying bit is you need to anycast your own IP address space in order for it to be functional as a CDN.

I'm not aware of any Canadian-owned CDNs either... OVH has one but they're pretty crappy as a company. Beware of whitelabelled CDNs too, even some of the CDNs provided by big cloud hosting companies are actually whitelabelled from another company.

It's not about software or data. It's about control over the supply chain - cars are essential to our economy and way of life in North America (like it or not). It's the same reason we protect the milk supply. You don't want another country to be able to turn it off in a conflict.

The thing is, if Trump wants to kill Canada's role in US car manufacturing, then it will cost him the car markets in Mexico and Canada. If there's no jobs here to protect, then we'll just drop the tariffs on Chinese EVs. (This is speaking like 20 years down the road). We'll all be driving Chinese cars in that scenario. The tariffs are a total lose-lose situation, so dumb.

I'd be way more concerned about whether it's a deathtrap than whether or not the touchscreen has good UX, lol.