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/
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/