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US foreign policy is completely incoherent right now. The answers don't really matter. They're just making these individual policy decisions based on trying to bully their allies/enemies to test the water as to how far they can impose their will on the rest of the world and be unpredictable.

Why does the US need critical minerals from Ukraine if there's no global heating and therefore we wouldn't need Elon Musk's EVs? Their positions make sense (to them) individually, but don't make any sense when you put them together. But when your electorate has the memory of a squirrel and is glued to social media propaganda feeds, you don't need coherent policy to stay in power.

ycombinator is shit lol

Some kind of crowd-sourced tagging would be a cool anti-troll technique. A lot of less experienced websurfers struggle to spot "inauthentic behaviour" (bots, astroturfing, etc) so it could be beneficial. Reddit has a huge problem with sleeper accounts though, where they build up reputation with low-effort comments over years, then activate when a campaign needs them. The social media marketers seem to sometimes use the same techniques as the state-sponsored troll farms.

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.