this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2023
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Maybe some dns fail-over for lemmy.ml to point to join-lemmy.org might be cool indeed ๐ค
Yeah, was thinking of a DNS based solution as well. Probably the easiest and most effective way to do it?
I dont think so, when the site is overloaded then clients cant reach it at all.
It should be compatible if someone sets it up.
You could configure something like a Cloudflare worker to throw up a page directing users elsewhere whenever healthchecks failed.
Then cloudflare would be able to spy on all the traffic so thats not an option.
How about https://deflect.ca/ they could still spy but probably less bad?
You could run an interstitial proxy yourself with a little health checking. The server itself doesn't die, just the webapp/db. nginx could be stuck on there (if it's not already there) with a temp redirect if the site is timing out.
That's...not how things work. Everyone has their philosophical opinions so I won't attempt to argue the point, but if you want to handle scale and distribution, you're going to have to start thinking differently, otherwise you're going to fail when load starts to really increase.
Cloudflare does have the ability to spy on traffic though, they hold SSL keys.