Alternatives to CloudFlare?
Alternatives to CloudFlare?
Hey is there any alternatives to CloudFlare reverse proxies? I want to hide my server IP but not share everything with CF...
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Depends on why you want to hide your server ip, what's your use case? Is it to protect against DDOS?
Cloudflare is evil, but is there any other party you would trust to share everything with?
Do you something like a vps would be more secure? Paying some dollars a month
I like that idea.
I'd suggest OVH or Digital Ocean.
If you think a DDoS attack is possible I'd suggest azure for that.
I'd probably use a VPS myself.
I seem to recall db0 saying that lemmy.dbzer0.com is behind some sort of reverse proxy. I assume that they're in the same boat as OP.
looks
$ host -t a lemmy.dbzer0.com lemmy.dbzer0.com has address 51.77.203.116 $ whois 51.77.203.116 [snip] role: OVH Technical Contact address: OVH SAS address: 2 rue Kellermann address: 59100 Roubaix address: France admin-c: OK217-RIPE tech-c: GM84-RIPE tech-c: SL10162-RIPE nic-hdl: OTC2-RIPE abuse-mailbox: abuse@ovh.net mnt-by: OVH-MNT created: 2004-01-28T17:42:29Z last-modified: 2014-09-05T10:47:15Z source: RIPE # Filtered % Information related to '51.77.0.0/16AS16276' route: 51.77.0.0/16 origin: AS16276 mnt-by: OVH-MNT created: 2018-03-07T09:24:45Z last-modified: 2018-03-07T09:24:45Z source: RIPE $I don't know if that's a VPS, but looks like they're using OVH.
a reverse proxy these days is pretty much just a requirement of any dynamic service. they often run on the same host as the software
Aight, but db0 had something about it obscuring the server location, IIRC.
it’s possible, but that would seem… odd… for such a large and tech-savvy instance. there’s a lot of reasons why this isn’t a good idea, and very few technical reasons why it is
my guess is that it’s less about obscuring server location for privacy reasons as is the implications in this thread, and more about handling changes cleanly or something like that - in which case, sure it obscures the server location but more that it makes the server “location” (or hardware, etc) irrelevant and fungible