Mastodawn

Looking into moving away from hosting multiple static websites on Cloudflare and onto EU alternatives instead, while keeping everything as simple as humanly possible.

Replacements per feature:
- Most of it: Coolify.
- Server(s): Upcloud?
- Domains/DNS: uhh… Scaleway, Ovhcloud?
- CDN and DDOS/AI blocking: oof, these look expensive… Bunny or nothing?

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Marko Karppinen Feb 5

@jonikorpi for domains I ended up with Netim due to some specific requirements Hetzner couldn't deal with. For static sites I would try to look for a host with a billing model where you wouldn't have to worry about things like AI blocking. It should just be internet background noise really, the reason people have to deal with is due to absurdly low request/bandwidth limits.

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Joni Korpi Feb 5

@karppinen Hmm yeah. At least Upcloud and Hetzner have static pricing, so the only worry would be whether that background noise can take my sites down or not. If it can, then I guess I have to throw Cloudflare in front of everything and I'm almost back to square one.

(I'm planning to release games, so malicious traffic is sadly entirely possible. Some people get very upset about games for all kinds of stupid reasons. :|)

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Marko Karppinen

@jonikorpi yeah, makes sense. maybe start with Bunny and revisit if it gets too expensive? You do have a global audience with the games hopefully so a CDN makes sense from a performance perspective too.