I guess it's mostly compliance related.

There are companies competing with Cloudflare. For example AWS, but also Akamai. There are some smaller players as well.

Running these Cloudflare services yourself isn't as simple as deploying a 'app' on couple of VPS servers. To run a CDN or services on the Edge near customers, you need to have a very good understanding of internet routing (BGP) and networking in general. If you have that in place, then you can start thinking about building services on your network.

I won’t use a service like this if it’s free. Without a pricing or business plan I’m worried it will shutdown any moment or doesn’t get maintained anymore. Where do I go if I need support? This doesn’t sound like a long term sustainable business.

We’ve run Smallchat, a default-free saas app, for a few years now, supporting millions of users. Our experience: with low-operating-cost saas apps like this, you can add a paid tier with pro features if you get a lot of traction while keeping the base app free.

With Smallchat, for example, a small percentage of paid users more than covers the operating costs of our mostly-free user base.

Wireless Belgium has been building DIY wifi networks on a very large scale since 2003. They have a lot of experience and maybe even spare hardware to start with your project. To get in touch: https://www.wirelessbelgie.be/contact/

I’m going to try this because tailscale is extremely slow when you want to fully utilize your bandwidth.

I think tailscale uses a userland TUN/TAP interface[0] which negotiates at 10MiB/s; that’ll be the largest bottleneck and likely applies to Innernet too.

Tailscale does use considerable CPU on my Mac though.

[0]: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/main/net/tstun/t...

Latency and bandwidth was a big issue for us - innernet uses the WireGuard kernel module on Linux when available, which is about as good as you can get (easily achieving saturated gigabit line speeds).

macOS is a different story, since there are only userspace implementations at the moment. Innernet currently looks for the official "wireguard-go" implementation, but you can swap out userspace implementations as you like. I'll add an environment variable check to make that easier without needing to recompile.

I can highly recommend the books "Why do we get fat and what we can do about it" or "the case against sugar" by Gary Taubes which are related to this.

This is great! Looking forward to test this :)

The labor was added in this calculation with data from the last 3 years. It's a lot less then one might think.

I’ve ran rook for a couple of months in my test lab on virtual machines. Absolutely love it and has been super stable. Does anyone run this on bare metal in production? Running this as a hyper converge k8s setup sound like its easy to scale even if you colocate your own hardware in a dc. Which is way cheaper then cloud these days. Anyone with experience?

I know a team that used to use it, but have since switched to Portworx for more features. K8S is great for bare metal although the installation and maintenance can be complicated. Rancher is a good option to outsource all that.

Team Comtress 2 is a fork of an older version of Team Fortress 2, with a community development team fixing bugs, improving performance, and adding quality of life features, with the goal of having those changes pulled upstream by Valve to the modern game.

Is there a precedent of something like this ever happening? Seems like an enormous leap, but who doesn't love an underdog? :)

Seeing as how they are basing their work on a leaked (stolen) version of the TF2 source code from Valve, I don't see this project even existing for very long, much less contributing anything back to Valve.

There actually is https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-st... Dude got 2 years probation, Nowadays he steals source code for the Chinese I guess (tencent).