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Re:Self-Hosted Cloudflare Alternatives on Sunday June 01, 2025 @01:24AM (#44148838)
I guess it's mostly compliance related.
Re:Self-Hosted Cloudflare Alternatives on Sunday June 01, 2025 @01:24AM (#44148834)
There are companies competing with Cloudflare. For example AWS, but also Akamai. There are some smaller players as well.

Running these Cloudflare services yourself isn't as simple as deploying a 'app' on couple of VPS servers. To run a CDN or services on the Edge near customers, you need to have a very good understanding of internet routing (BGP) and networking in general. If you have that in place, then you can start thinking about building services on your network.

Re:Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:52AM (#37059464)
I won’t use a service like this if it’s free. Without a pricing or business plan I’m worried it will shutdown any moment or doesn’t get maintained anymore. Where do I go if I need support? This doesn’t sound like a long term sustainable business.
Wireless Belgium has been building DIY wifi networks on a very large scale since 2003. They have a lot of experience and maybe even spare hardware to start with your project. To get in touch: https://www.wirelessbelgie.be/contact/
Re:Innernet: open source Rust based Tailscale alternative on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:39AM (#26631514)
I’m going to try this because tailscale is extremely slow when you want to fully utilize your bandwidth.
I can highly recommend the books "Why do we get fat and what we can do about it" or "the case against sugar" by Gary Taubes which are related to this.
This is great! Looking forward to test this :)
Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @02:12PM (#25268651)
The labor was added in this calculation with data from the last 3 years. It's a lot less then one might think.
Re:Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Rook Graduation on Saturday October 10, 2020 @05:00PM (#24741862)
I’ve ran rook for a couple of months in my test lab on virtual machines. Absolutely love it and has been super stable. Does anyone run this on bare metal in production? Running this as a hyper converge k8s setup sound like its easy to scale even if you colocate your own hardware in a dc. Which is way cheaper then cloud these days. Anyone with experience?
Re:Team Comtress 2. TF2 Fork with a community development team on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:26PM (#24536639)
Team Comtress 2 is a fork of an older version of Team Fortress 2, with a community development team fixing bugs, improving performance, and adding quality of life features, with the goal of having those changes pulled upstream by Valve to the modern game.
Re:Complaints EU US Transfers Filed on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:22AM (#24197763)
A quick analysis of the HTML source code of major EU webpages shows that many companies still use Google Analytics or Facebook Connect one month after a major judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) - despite both companies clearly falling under US surveillance laws, such as FISA 702. Neither Facebook nor Google seem to have a legal basis for the data transfers. Google still claims to rely on the “Privacy Shield” a month after it was invalidated, while Facebook continues to use the "SCCs", despite the Court finding that US surveillance laws violate the essence of EU fundamental rights.
Interesting read! A couple of days ago I setup a Cloudflare’s access with argotunnels and a CA. A very cool beyondcorp service which looks similar to okta.
Re:Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice? on Saturday April 13, 2019 @01:46AM (#19651302)
12 rules of life by Jordan Peterson. Also Peterson's YouTube channel has loads of free lectures.
Re:Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice? on Saturday April 13, 2019 @01:46AM (#19651300)
12 rules of life by Jordan peterson