straycatstrut

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Server upgrades complete! The Lemmy Club is now hosted in Canada 🇨🇦! - plus, we're moving away from Cloudflare.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi, I caught this in trending posts - I personally have spent a lot of time recently looking in this area and wanted to drop bunny.net and cloudns.net in your ears - both services are Europe based and provide several solutions (in the case of Bunny, a Cloudflare-like experience). Pretty much every other competitor in this space is tied to US tech besides these two (i.e. use AWS under the hood).

  I was more just after DNS hosting myself and am so far pretty happy with Bunny DNS so far as it’s more cost effective than CloudNS. OVH Cloud (France) has a datacenter near Montreal as well with great prices for large VMs ($5 US for 4cpu/8g ram/75g vdisk) if you need a VM fast for some ad-hoc work (backups?) in the same region, but a different provider for disaster recovery.

  I’m still trying to find the “right” ICANN accredited[1] domain registrar that isn’t a small tiny shoppe and has good prices - in the top 20 you really only have Regery, Above and Z which are not US based and have pretty good prices, but many of them end up being more expensive in renewals (e.g. US companies market at $12/yr for com/net/org, EU trends at $16/yr)

  Hope this helps! The struggle is real - even using these services, I’m still paying with Paypal. :-/

  [1] this may not be so important if you’re using a localized ccTLD - I use zone.ee (zone.eu) for .ee and .fi domains for example, great prices easy service but not specifically an ICANN registrar, so their com/net/org prices are lackluster