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Lemmy.ca does about 2tb a week in traffic, 1tb of which is absorbed by Cloudflare caching images / static resources. We do have the server / network capacity to serve directly, but at the cost of reduced performance and higher latency for users. Our server is in Vancouver, if you're in Montreal you could expect images to load slower for you since they'd no longer be cached locally once one user viewed it. Another advantage is that if we ever do get DDOS'ed, it becomes possible to manage and deal with in a reasonable amount of time + energy.
I'm open to discussing dropping them, but we don't pay them anything as we're just on a free plan. We're just costing them a little money, we don't even register our domains through them.
If you ever decide to explore the market, although American, Fastly has been a big proponent of indie and open web.
I've actually used them at an old day job and quite liked them. I don't know if they still let you provide your own vcl, but it was a great feature.
If we were paying for something, then yeah they'd be on my short list.
Edit: huh. Interesting.... https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward
Edit: Thanks for the well thought out answer. I can appreciate that sentiment.
With regards to the link you had appended, this is also interesting https://www.fastly.com/lp/fediverse/
Oh that is cool, I didn't see that page.