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CloudFlare usage on Lemmy.ca.. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Ashwag@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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I was wondering if there was really a good reason for CloudFlare to be used? I understand Lemmy.ca has dedicated hardware in a datacenter. Seems odd to pipe all our data through a US company as we are in a trade war.

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[–] crewman_princess@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

https://deflect.ca/

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh that's interesting. Thanks.

[–] crewman_princess@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

Also check out https://deflect.ca/non-profits/ you might get it for free.

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would CIRAS's anycast DNS be useful here?

Link: https://www.cira.ca/en/cybersecurity/anycast-dns/

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Not really

[–] GameGod@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

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?