I know lemm.ee is hosted in the EU, but I can’t find that information for lemmy.world.

  • bndkt@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    5 hours ago

    They probably use Cloudflare for Loadbalancing and Anti DDOS. This doesn’t mean it is hosted on Cloudflare, it is only a proxy. The point is not to show you the real IP so you can’t attack the origin server.

  • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
    211·
    3 hours ago

    AfaIk, they are hosted at Hetzner, so physically in Germany or Finland.

    Edit: Source https://lemmy.world/post/22397634

    Edit 2: The ip online tool on the website below indicates that it may actually be physically hosted in US (on a virtual server as, according to Wikipedia, Hetzner doesn’t offer bare metal servers in US).

    https://www.ipaddress.com/website/lemmy.world/

    Edit 3: The IP is from Cloudflare, the servers are from Hetzner in EU.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
      1·
      1 hour ago

      AfaIk, they are hosted at Hetzner, so physically in Germany or Finland.

      If I remember correctly, the main servers are in Hetzner’s data centre in Finland with back-ups in Germany. Although they have a complex set-up so it may not be as cleanly divided up these days.

      I suspect half the Fediverse runs on Hetzner at this point.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 hours ago

      It’s Germany. You can tell because the ToS mentions the service being subject to German law.

    • notabot@lemm.ee
      8·
      4 hours ago

      The US IP address is for Cloudflare, who are acting as a front end for things like DDoS protection. A lot of lemmy servers use them, which is unfortunate, but there don’t seem to be any viable European alternatives.

      You can check the details with the whois command. The relevant bit when querying for one of their addresses is:

      NetRange:       104.16.0.0 - 104.31.255.255
CIDR:           104.16.0.0/12                         
NetName:        CLOUDFLARENET                         
NetHandle:      NET-104-16-0-0-1                      
Parent:         NET104 (NET-104-0-0-0-0)              
NetType:        Direct Allocation                     
OriginAS:       AS13335                               
Organization:   Cloudflare, Inc. (CLOUD14)            
RegDate:        2014-03-28                            
Updated:        2024-09-04                            
Comment:        All Cloudflare abuse reporting can be
done via https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse             
Comment:        Geofeed: https://api.cloudflare.com/local-ip-ranges.csv                                     
Ref:            https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/104.16.0.0
      • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Thank you. So that’s why you ‘see’ an US IP address while the physical server may be located anywhere, e.g. in Germany.

        By looking at their Wikipedia, I’ve already found out that Cloudflare doesn’t do hosting.