Looking forward to seeing what the next 24 hours are going to be like.
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Discussion about the aussie.zone instance itself
Lots of new users, heaps more traffic:
I bet you're glad you went with a VPS.
Much easier to scale than a dedicated server, thats for sure.
Interesting how little CPU/RAM/Storage is required to run a site like this
Awesome stuff Lodion.
I assume you're using the free tier of cloudflare?
Easy to configure?
Worth it?
Any cons?
Yes
Yes
Yes
none that I've hit
Only "complicated" part is having your origin webserver log actual client IP addresses rather than the Cloudflare source IP. Not hard, just the most difficult piece of the puzzle. Cloudflare have pretty good documentation on how to do this with most popular web servers.
edit: oh before enabling proxying via CF, I did lower security settings to minimise any interference with lemmy. I'm going to gradually increase the security settings.
Are you running your own reverse proxy such as NGINX, or are you using the cloudflare provided SSL solution?
I should probably just create an account and start playing with it.
You don't get a choice... if you use Cloudflare's reverse proxy CDN solution, they provide the public facing SSL certs. But yes, Lemmy's front end is Nginx which directs various URIs to either the frontend or backend processes.