Building an Anycast network for fun (2022)(tylerobrien.dev)
3 pointsby miduil3 hours ago1 comment
  • Imustaskforhelp3 hours ago
    This was a really fun read as I was (am?) interested in creating a cloudflare tunnels alternative (you can say)

    Lowendtalk is a great community to talk about in such things and buyvm (frantech) or francessco is quite active in the community too.

    I have even talked to francesco in their discord themselves iirc. It was fun and I didn't understand the hype behind BuyVM but the community or the discord server, people love francesco a lot.

    Great read. To be honest regarding my cf tunnel idea. I feel like its more of an economies at scale/loss making idea & only cf is able to profitably execute it but my intention was that cf runs ~12% of the data around the world and I just wished if a non profit could've been established regarding a cf tunnel idea and I even talked to providers about it.

    But I felt like I needed funding and so I did drop the idea unfortunately. I wanted to fund the project myself but I felt like I was incredibly frugal and the idea of funding/sustaining it myself was quite infeasible.

    just out of Curiousity, curious to hear what the hn communities think about an non profit cf tunnel.

    • miduil37 minutes ago
      Oh cool to hear! I didn't knew people were trying to build this - I think that's pretty fascinating, although also a difficult to pull off as a community - how do you manage malicious actors both on the ingress but also at the service layer if there is no commercial "contract". Currently those questions are even hard to address on a single-IP vHost level, so I'd be curious to hear what your thoughts are on that topic.

      With the non-profit doesn't mean non-commercial, so what is your idea in that regard?