Two? Through separate providers? I'm not saying I haven't done it, but server uptime is not the same as availability over the net.
🤷🏻♂️ It's a minor point. I've served plenty of things from a home PC. It's even more reliable now that we have better VPN / CloudFlare options, because it's harder for your ISP to differentiate the traffic.
I've been running my own home and small business "DCs" for about 12 years I can say
Yes, I have a fiber connection and had a cellular connection as a backup, but since I moved to this location I haven't had any downtime in 5 years, so I stopped paying for it because the price was insane. My customers don't need more than %99 availability which is a pretty easy target to hit.
Unless you're using a well known VPS, you're probably their only customer who legitimately has other options 🫡
They are pretty big here in the US, and just got bought out by a much larger DC. Unfortunately after the merger they froze US hiring (local to my area anyway) and moved all customer service and contact out of the US within the first couple months and laid off a bunch of staff.
VPS is only for my edge, IP protection and connection routing. IMO you have to be running a rack at home if you don't have a business. It's a lot of work, but you can't replace the price to performance. Enterprise hardware is not hard to find, and often much cheaper than consumer equipment if youre willing to shave off a few MHZ off the top of memory in exchange for stability.
Cloudflare ruins decentralization
They offer many services. I'm talking about using WARP to shield yourself from your ISP: swapping one monopoly for a different one. You could also use one of many other VPN providers instead of WARP.
But people also wrap Cloudflare around their DC, and that dramatically centralizes things. Cloudflare is almost certainly the NSA's best friend.
