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How to check servers' hosts? (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
submitted 6 months ago by UngratefulLilToad@lemm.ee to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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It looks like Cloudflare Inc is the 1st (American), 4th is DigitalOcean, then there are some servers hosted on Amazon, Oracle, Google... Maybe I understand something incorrectly, but I'd like to avoid those hosting providers. Also I don't get this frontend, backend thing, but apparently there's difference when it comes to interpreting hosting providers. Anyone can help?

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[โ€“] Emperor@feddit.uk 6 points 6 months ago

Maybe I understand something incorrectly, but Iโ€™d like to avoid those hosting providers.

It's probably misleading as Cloudflare sits between a site and the Internet which allows it to speed up page delivery and, probably why it's being used here, it can help mitigate attacks on the site.

If I had to guess, the hosting of Lemmy instances probably breaks down like:

  • Hetzner - Germany and Finland
  • OVHcloud - France

Providers like Oracle are in there because they provide a free tier of hosting that is handy for a small instance, if you are going by numbers of users served, then Hetzner will be on top. This is at least partly down to it being difficult to find a cheaper good-quality service, which is critical if you are relying on donations.

Also I donโ€™t get this frontend, backend thing, but apparently thereโ€™s difference when it comes to interpreting hosting providers.

Lemmy's frontend is separate from its backend, which means you can add new frontends if you want, like old.feddit.uk. I might be missing something but I don't think this will have much bearing on picking a hosting provider.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช Estonia: https://lemm.ee/
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Germany, Austria and Switzerland: https://feddit.org/ and https://discuss.tchncs.de/
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ EU-hosted: https://lemmy.zip/ (special mention to their detailed reports like this one: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677)
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy: https://feddit.it/
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark: https://feddit.dk/
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland: https://szmer.info/
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
Catalonia and Basque country: https://lemmy.cat/ and https://lemmy.eus/
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น Lithuania: https://group.lt/

Now about hosters themselves, you can check the sidebars. https://lemmy.zip/ for instance redirects to this link: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check/?url=lemmy.zip

Avoiding Cloudflare could be difficult, I'm not even sure which instances don't use it.

[โ€“] UngratefulLilToad@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Damn. Now I need to switch instance and it seems impossible.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

Hopefully someone will chime in

[โ€“] UngratefulLilToad@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Actually, lemmy.fediverse.observer provides information about host (you can find the whole detailed information about a chosen instance)

[โ€“] SheenSquelcher@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

I dunno I kind of avoid thinking about stuff like this. You can stop buying McDonalds and delete your Facebook account but avoiding American servers is a world of pain.