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Fedecan (lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca) will be moving away from Cloudflare (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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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/

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 days ago

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/