Saidit.net — July 1, 2019 — Servers will move to Switzerland on July 3 at 2am US Central Time.

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[–]go1dfish 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The more paranoid would mention that using Cloudflare may negate the benefits of Swiss hosting.

They see all the traffic and could presumably store it. The use of Cloudflare is a commonly complaint among my privacy conscious users but the development/ops convenience it provides is hard to pass up.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well if you ever come across an open source CloudFlare implementation, please pass it along. We have also gotten complaints about using it.

Edit: we also found out the hard way that CF does not give you rate limiting for free. So how much DDOS they really prevent is a big question mark for me.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah it negates some of the potential benefits, but there are other benefits that will be realized when it comes to avoiding potential legal problems.

We're acting more from a legal protection angle, than a privacy angle, per se.

I agree cloudflare is just too dang convenient and good for what it is. We looked in to alternatives, and it's just not worth it as far as I could tell.

[–]burtzev 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Cloudflare is protecting the site from DDOSes, honestly it's suspect as hell that you'd try to talk mag out of using it... I'm sure you've noticed saidit has completely trounced nab in the Alexa ratings.

[–]go1dfish 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not trying to talk anyone out of using anything. As I said, I still use it myself; just pointing out the ups and downs of different approaches.

Don't really care about Alexa rankings, I'm not out to sell ads or anything else on nab, I just want to build shit; ideally shit that doesn't require my continued involvement to sustain itself.