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For small web to exist all fiber ISPs need to provide fixed external IPs and open ports 25, 53 and 80. Dynamic DNS is a hardcoded rentseeking joke in most rout
by bullen 5y ago
For small web to exist all fiber ISPs need to provide fixed external IPs and open ports 25, 53 and 80.
Dynamic DNS is a hardcoded rentseeking joke in most routers, they never wanted an open standard for that.
I'm making my own DynDNS but then I now need cloud instances, which is a dependency we should not need.
Act accordingly in your local jurisdiction.
- anderspitman 5y agoLong term you're probably right, but I think tunneling services[0] like Cloudflare tunnel or my own boringproxy are going to be what we use for the next 10 years or so. We're going to have to prove that self-hosting is useful before people start demanding ipv6, public static IPs, and decent upload speeds from their ISPs. [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
- bullen 5y agoTunneling increases latency. Seen that the final medium/media is a 3D action MMO we don't have time for that latency.
- mmcgaha 5y agoI have a little site that I moved behind cloudflare. The dead simple https is nice but I have a page with a gallery of 140 images and it loads so much slower than before the move. Granted I am not paying anything for the service and I don't plan to change it back so this is just an observation.
- bullen 5y agoHTTPS is a waste of electricity.
- anderspitman 5y agoThat's a hot take. Do you never do anything on the web which you don't want your ISP to have full access to? That said, I agree HTTPS is too complicated to set up, even with ACME/LetsEncrypt. I wish you could just set up your own certificate with the public key in your DNS records. But that requires DNSSEC/DoH or similar.
- bullen 5y agoMost ISPs in Sweden have root certificates. I use this for security: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2289 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2289 Trying to avoid MitM attacks from your ISPs is really an exercise i futility, and a really expensive one at that, both energy and timevise. HTTP, DNS and SMTP are the only protocols you need. Small web uses small protocols, big web uses big protocols.
- anderspitman 5y agoHow much traffic does the gallery get? Unless you have enough people in a given area hitting the site enough for the Cloudflare PoP in that area to have a warm cache, the first request for each image is going to be slower than going directly to the origin server.
- mmcgaha 5y agoIt is a site for a game that died ten years ago so it gets more bots than people at this point. Last month my cloudflare email said they saved me 22.7% of 91.69MB. So you are correct that the cache is never warm.
- anderspitman 5y agoFor that use case, yep totally agree. But there are a lot of use cases that an extra hop through a proxy that's physically near the origin server still provides very good performance.