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Both give you the same content, but the software stacks are very different. There's also significant political differences between the Lemmy devs and the piefed dev. You can view the same content on both, and many mobile clients support both.

They're depending on VPS providers and as far as I know there just aren't any good DDoS resilient ones out west. They also don't have anycast or geodns, so which node you hit is just a dice roll. Unfortunately there's just no good competition to cloudflare.

Last I saw, they had rules against self promotion. I'm not sure if this qualifies, but at the very least we could post it in their self promotion specific thread.

The reddit mods get very angry when you suggest links away from their little fiefdoms. An ultra sensitive bunch they are.

Lol I noticed that too, but it just seems to be the captcha.

It's free for non profits, also our traffic is pretty minimal in the grand scheme of things.

I can't speak for your stuff though 😂

wait what? I thought like 99% of the point of edge services was to protect you from DDoS? I would hope that they wouldn't bill you in cases like that.

I thought that was strange to but here's what they say on their website that makes it sound like you wont be charged for DDoS or bots

How We Count unique IPs (UIP)

The total number of unique IPs is tallied based on total number of legitimate individual IP addresses at the end of the calendar month. If a reader visits your website every day from the same IP address, that will equal 1 unique visitor for that calendar month, no matter how often they visit your website.

Unique is fair

Other providers might charge you based on website hits, website visits, megabytes of bandwidth, services offered and many other metrics. Some providers charge premiums during attacks. We opt for fair, consistent and predictable low-cost pricing that serves our clients fairly. Malicious bots or traffic generated during an attack are not something that you will pay for either, as these IPs will not be counted in your monthly pricing.

Not that I know of, and I don't think that's the direction they're going with it.

have you looked at ngrok?

I'm caching less to keep the load off piefed, and more to keep the load off our network connection and improve performance for users. Unfortunately nginx won't help with that. Also though I know it's trivial to get our origin IP if you're determined, it helps avoid the casual ddos attacks.

Same for us, deflect. If you're looking for a good Canadian provider https://easydns.com/ is solid. We do our domain registration through https://www.canspace.ca/ and I think they also offer some DNS.

5M seems really high, we're at 7.8M but I've become pretty aggressive about blocking bots / scrapers from China

We're a registered non-profit in Canada though - https://deflect.ca/non-profits/