Hi, I wanted to host a personal Lemmy instance online (for just myself, I don’t think I can take the upkeep for other users - please let me know if this is not possible) and wanted to understand how to “attach” a CDN service to it.

The idea behind doing this is that I’m in the US but I’m looking to host a server in Europe. I am looking into Cloudflare’s free CDN service, but it would be great if someone could point me towards how I can configure this setup to speed up the loading time for my Lemmy instance (which is going to be far away from me, geographically).

I would also like to know about your setups and how you have hosted Lemmy.

Thanks!

  • oranki@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A CNAME is just a DNS record that points to another DNS record, technically they could allow it for free users too.

    I’d guess the point is they get info on what free users do with their DNS, to help make their paid services more appealing.

    No offense, but you might be seriously overthinking this.