it’s possible, but that would seem… odd… for such a large and tech-savvy instance. there’s a lot of reasons why this isn’t a good idea, and very few technical reasons why it is
my guess is that it’s less about obscuring server location for privacy reasons as is the implications in this thread, and more about handling changes cleanly or something like that - in which case, sure it obscures the server location but more that it makes the server “location” (or hardware, etc) irrelevant and fungible
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Do you something like a vps would be more secure? Paying some dollars a month
I like that idea.
I’d suggest OVH or Digital Ocean.
If you think a DDoS attack is possible I’d suggest azure for that.
I’d probably use a VPS myself.
I seem to recall db0 saying that lemmy.dbzer0.com is behind some sort of reverse proxy. I assume that they’re in the same boat as OP.
looks
I don’t know if that’s a VPS, but looks like they’re using OVH.
a reverse proxy these days is pretty much just a requirement of any dynamic service. they often run on the same host as the software
Aight, but db0 had something about it obscuring the server location, IIRC.
it’s possible, but that would seem… odd… for such a large and tech-savvy instance. there’s a lot of reasons why this isn’t a good idea, and very few technical reasons why it is
my guess is that it’s less about obscuring server location for privacy reasons as is the implications in this thread, and more about handling changes cleanly or something like that - in which case, sure it obscures the server location but more that it makes the server “location” (or hardware, etc) irrelevant and fungible