Hey is there any alternatives to CloudFlare reverse proxies? I want to hide my server IP but not share everything with CF…

  • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I like that idea.

    I’d suggest OVH or Digital Ocean.

    If you think a DDoS attack is possible I’d suggest azure for that.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’d probably use a VPS myself.

      I seem to recall db0 saying that lemmy.dbzer0.com is behind some sort of reverse proxy. I assume that they’re in the same boat as OP.

      looks

      $ host -t a lemmy.dbzer0.com
      lemmy.dbzer0.com has address 51.77.203.116
      $ whois 51.77.203.116
      [snip]
      role:           OVH Technical Contact
      address:        OVH SAS
      address:        2 rue Kellermann
      address:        59100 Roubaix
      address:        France
      admin-c:        OK217-RIPE
      tech-c:         GM84-RIPE
      tech-c:         SL10162-RIPE
      nic-hdl:        OTC2-RIPE
      abuse-mailbox:  [email protected]
      mnt-by:         OVH-MNT
      created:        2004-01-28T17:42:29Z
      last-modified:  2014-09-05T10:47:15Z
      source:         RIPE # Filtered
      
      % Information related to '51.77.0.0/16AS16276'
      
      route:          51.77.0.0/16
      origin:         AS16276
      mnt-by:         OVH-MNT
      created:        2018-03-07T09:24:45Z
      last-modified:  2018-03-07T09:24:45Z
      source:         RIPE
      $
      

      I don’t know if that’s a VPS, but looks like they’re using OVH.

      • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        a reverse proxy these days is pretty much just a requirement of any dynamic service. they often run on the same host as the software

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Aight, but db0 had something about it obscuring the server location, IIRC.

          • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            it’s possible, but that would seem… odd… for such a large and tech-savvy instance. there’s a lot of reasons why this isn’t a good idea, and very few technical reasons why it is

            my guess is that it’s less about obscuring server location for privacy reasons as is the implications in this thread, and more about handling changes cleanly or something like that - in which case, sure it obscures the server location but more that it makes the server “location” (or hardware, etc) irrelevant and fungible