I currently use cloudflare for a couple of domains to use it for dns, caching/proxying, dns challenges for letsencrypt through traefic and to only white-list certain regions and ips. I do this through the free tier.
Is there any European alternative that provides this as well? The European alter atices I’ve seen listed on sites primarily seem to focus on just CDN for enterprises.
I use it mainly as a first line security for my homelab, and a VPN isn’t an option for me.
Maybe this is a good “gap in the market” moment then - some global, at least not US-centric, CDN/DDOS-mitigation/edge-compute/WAN/DNS/registry competition to cloudflare’s core tech. Maybe the way to increase the odds of success would be to develop an easy-install (integrated, containerised/packaged) FLOSS framework and federated control-protocol for those things with main target-userbase being IXPs around the world (yes, IXPs, not ISPs, which means it would all have to be free and open, and able to be deployed in a way that cost-handling doesn’t put the IXPs in an awkward conflict-of-interest position). Importantly there is already a lot of FLOSS code available for much of this, so a large part of the work would be integration, UX, etc. Maybe it would then not need to “compete” with a behemoth like Cloudflare but instead iterate towards making some of it “default internet functionality”, sidestepping it being opt-in/paid extras entirely. I know such a simplistic high-level definition sounds woefully naive, but I think starting there and discussing real-world details could lead to something…