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/
Update Feb 16: pixelfed has been migrated to deflect
Update Feb 20: I’m working with deflect on improving performance before migrating lemmy / piefed over. Currently pixelfed load times aren’t great due to traffic often hitting edge nodes way out in Europe
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.
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/