Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins!

westyvw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You are doing something right. I see people say Lemmy is slow, or there are large amounts of downtime. That has not happened on this instance.

  The guy running the instance is a software engineer with devops experience, whereas a lot of others are amateurs. Which isn’t a bad thing - it’s great that a lot of people are self-hosting things - but something like Lemmy requires a bit of consideration on the infrastructure and security side of things.

  I think there are ideological factors too. Ping lemm.ee or lemmy.world to get the IP address - you get a Cloudflare IP according to the WHOIS. Ping lemmy.ml and you get OVH SAS as the owner. Same for Hexbear actually. Both instances are run by tankies and if there’s one thing that they get right, it’s that the entire Internet shouldn’t go through one single corporation. Unfortunately, that one single corporation, Cloudflare, also provides excellent DDoS protection.

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  • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think the thing about cloudflare is that it hasn’t given any reason to move away from it. Of course, if it goes down, everyone will know about it. I think deflect.ca is an alternative.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s no true alternative to cloudflare because cloudflare provides you with a ridiculous amount of nice things, many with generous free tiers.

      Deflect has a 10 dollar minimum which is basically nothing, but at the same time, way more than cloudflare where basic protection is free.

      Yes, I’m also a CF user for my personal and business domains. Not sure if I’m happy about it but then again I haven’t paid them a cent yet.

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  • WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What’s OVH SAS?

    I work in software but wouldn’t mind getting better at the administrative side of things myself. It means I probably have to learn Linux better, though.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s just a host they both use. Exposing it is not a bad thing inherently, but unless you know what you’re doing you’re probably better off hiding it behind cloudflare. Cloudflare can handle a DDoS a lot better than some regional hosting provider.

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      • WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Thanks for the explanation!

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• Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Its really just lemmy.world and the odd instance running on a pentium gold in someones attic.

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