European Cloudflare alternatives (european-alternatives.eu)

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I think I've seen that asked before, but can't find the post now. I also know quite some instances of Fedi use Cloudflare.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

https://buy-european.net/en/alternative-to/cloudflare

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This site is missing some alternatives such as the Swiss Infomaniak, so be mindful.

Edit: or maybe not such a good alternative after all https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/infomaniak-breaks-rank-and-comes-out-in-support-of-controversial-swiss-encryption-law

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Beware that infomaniak does kyc even for such simple things like buying a domain.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Because they ask for your phone number?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No, they literally wanted me to install their crappy app and make selfie and upload my government issued ID. Needless to say I cancelled my domain order. Fyi cloudflare didn't want anything extra...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Never asked me anything of the sort. Were you trying to get a *.swiss domain?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No. It was a .dev domain

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Have you submitted Infomaniak as an addition? In my experience, submissions get added quite fast

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I think the main selling point of Cloudflare is their free plan. I'm not sure if these alternatives will take off, since there is just one provider with a free plan amongs that, and it's somewhat limited. But then I don't know why so many people use Cloudflare for Fediverse services. My instance runs fine without.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

I assume it's to handle DDOS attacks? If somebody has beef with your instance, it would be very easy to bring it down for an extended period of time without some kind of protection in front.

It's kind of like a fire extinguisher, everything is fine without it, right up to the point it isn't.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Supposedly, yes. Though I only ever read about attacking with uploaded images, maybe lots if requests which are crafted to result in expensive database queries... I'm not sure if it's ever something Cloudflare could protect from? I mean all their advertising about security, mitigation and prevention sure goes down like oil. But I sometimes wonder if it's just 100% snake-oil for use-cases like this...

I think the fire-extinguisher is a proper set up of Linux, updates, backups, and a web application without a lot of issues in the program code, and a minimum of attack surface.

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