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I am opting for the very low cost providers like Racknerd and CloudServer (see: $1 VPS offerings) - which host most of their servers outside the US.
Thank you for the explanation, I would like to know more about the "effort" from Lemmy's side to let Cloudflare cache content before it is requested.
Could you explain this point a bit more? Why would Cloudflare need to control DNS for my domain? How is this linked to them proxying my traffic? I've been trying to understand this for a bit now - how does having CF's own nameservers let CF proxy my traffic?
I was also considering hosting Lemmy in my own network, but I can't seem to find any guides on which ports to forward - if I could just find a decent guide on the networking required to host Lemmy I might even do it on-prem.
Thanks a bunch!
Using Cloudflare nameservers helps to proxy your traffic because if proxying is enabled ("orange cloud") those servers aren't handing out your IP address to people who request your domain, they're handing out addresses belonging to Cloudflare machines near the visitor instead. They have machines in data centers all around the world, and they would like the traffic to end up in the data center closest to where it's needed.
Doing that means they can do stuff like reduce cross-region network traffic: for instance, if your VPS is in Europe but a bunch of visitors from the US suddenly request a certain image on your site (because you've just posted to a popular community, perhaps), they only need to have that image data cross the Atlantic once before they can serve it up many times in the US. Besides saving bandwidth that also allows it to be served faster to most visitors, because most requests for it are effectively served from a local data center instead of from one on another continent. They'll also continue to be able to serve your image even when your VPS is down for whatever reason, as long as it's already in cache.
(Most of that is probably oversimplified and but hopefully that clarifies it a bit)