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

  • foremanguy@lemmy.mlOP
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    9 months ago

    Do you something like a vps would be more secure? Paying some dollars a month

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      9 months 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.

        • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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          9 months 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

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              9 months 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