I currently use cloudflare for a couple of domains to use it for dns, caching/proxying, dns challenges for letsencrypt through traefic and to only white-list certain regions and ips. I do this through the free tier.
Is there any European alternative that provides this as well? The European alter atices I’ve seen listed on sites primarily seem to focus on just CDN for enterprises.
I use it mainly as a first line security for my homelab, and a VPN isn’t an option for me.
This might be of interest to you:
https://european-alternatives.eu/
I have already looked through sites like those and have not found viable alternatives.
Because there aren’t any.
This is a major issue with today’s internet.
It’s essential infrastructure for everyone on earth, but most of it depends on a few US corporations.
(Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Cloudflare, Meta)
Maybe this is a good “gap in the market” moment then - some global, at least not US-centric, CDN/DDOS-mitigation/edge-compute/WAN/DNS/registry competition to cloudflare’s core tech. Maybe the way to increase the odds of success would be to develop an easy-install (integrated, containerised/packaged) FLOSS framework and federated control-protocol for those things with main target-userbase being IXPs around the world (yes, IXPs, not ISPs, which means it would all have to be free and open, and able to be deployed in a way that cost-handling doesn’t put the IXPs in an awkward conflict-of-interest position). Importantly there is already a lot of FLOSS code available for much of this, so a large part of the work would be integration, UX, etc. Maybe it would then not need to “compete” with a behemoth like Cloudflare but instead iterate towards making some of it “default internet functionality”, sidestepping it being opt-in/paid extras entirely. I know such a simplistic high-level definition sounds woefully naive, but I think starting there and discussing real-world details could lead to something…
Yeah, if AWS and Cloudflare alone go down, most people will think the whole internet is gone.
Let’s be real - almost the whole internet will be down, then (or at least partially affected in one way or another)
A lot of old forums and personal website won’t, but those are dropping off anyway. But yeah, most things whose devs/hosters are keeping up with trends, are using at least either Cloudflare or a major cloud compute provider, often both.