With the recent willingness of the US Government to pressure its tech agencies into revealing user data without a proper judicial warrant, we’ve decided it’s overdue for us migrate away from Cloudflare.
We’ll be transitioning our sites over to https://deflect.ca/ over the next week or so, starting with pixelfed first before doing lemmy and piefed.
I hope to be able to do this without any noticeable downtime, but it is a major config change that will require some backend changes as well. I’ll make an announcement before/after and you can always check https://status.fedecan.ca/
Fantastic. Fully approve.
Good call. Thank you.
Nice job! I just moved my hosting to stormweb.ca and I’m super happy about the switch.
As a European (but who lived for 10 years in Montreal, that’s why I have an account here) I applaud any initiative to move digital infrastructure away from the US. Good luck.
Post this on Reddit too, so more people come here. /r/BuyCanadian is a good sub for posting this.
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.
Lets be honest, they’ll probably just perm ban you from that sub, but at least some people might see.
Why don’t you post it for them?
It’s not self promotion if I do it!
… but I don’t have a Reddit account
That’s some great news. Even without the current horrible state of the US, just CloudFlare itself is getting to be a problem anyway.
Thanks for all the hard work! I totally don’t understand hosting/managing the community I bet it’s a huge task. Thank you!
Sweet I’ve been interested in Deflect as an alternative to CF since I noticed Cory Doctorow using it on his ‘pluralistic’ website.
What are your Cloudflare metrics for unique visitors? I’d be very curious how it compares to your billing in Deflect.
I run a small Lemmy instance and I’m showing an insane 5M unique visitors per month. I’m sure that’s mega-inflated by federations or bots though. If Deflect charged me for even a fraction of that I’d be bankrupted.
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/
Thanks for the transparency!
What’s used/would be used for DNS? I got a bunch at CF.
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.
Thank you!
