According to fedidb.org, lemm.ee is hosted in the US. But according to the admins, it is hosted in Finland (lemm.ee/post/57870549). Why the discrepancy?
I have no idea but I’m assuming something something cloudflair.
Is lemm.ee hosted in the US? (FediDB info)
Submitted 1 day ago by Szewek@lemm.ee to meta@lemm.ee
https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemm.ee
sunaurus@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Our servers are all hosted in Finland indeed, but we use Cloudflare for DDoS protection etc. Clients/bots/scripts/etc (like FediDB) don’t see our server IP addresses directly, they see Cloudflare IP addresses. FediDB uses the IP address it sees to assume what country the server is in.
The same is true for a bunch of other Lemmy servers as well - a lot of the ones FediDB shows as “United States” are actually hosted in Europe (or elsewhere).
Szewek@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. I didn’t know about Cloudflare, thank you!
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Hey my guess was right. Yay