How dare you make us click a link and read for ourselves? Not what I signed up for.
Well of course not, you joined lemm.ee
After re-reading the fine-print I hereby fully commit my soul to the spirit of lemmy.
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.
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
whoiscommand. 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
You have all information here.
So Server Host for lemmy.world is Cloudflare, Inc.
lemm.ee is also hosted on Cloudflare.
You’d be kinda stupid not to use some form of cloud hosting solution as a small time website these days. Cloudflare or AWS or whatever you prefer.
Why is that? Mostly security I guess?
Security, but also ability to scale and not have to host your own equipment.
