🦎 SwampLizard.io - Bitcoin Mixer

[dkbit98]

Actually, there are dozens of alternatives available, but none of them are as popular as Cloudflare.

I meant more privacy oriented alternative.
Websites can always make their own protection that respects privacy (like some exchanges I know), but that is not cheap and maybe it's not always as effective.
I am fine with SwampLizard using cloudflare as long as there is onion alternative.

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Actually, there are dozens of alternatives available, but none of them are as popular as Cloudflare. Personally, I haven't used any of them, but Oracle Dyn DDoS Protection, AWS WAF by Amazon, Google Cloud Armor, and Azure DDoS Protection have very good ratings—almost similar to Cloudflare. Since I haven't used them personally but only heard and saw them on the internet, I can't really say they are reliable enough. But since multi billion dollars companies are backing some of them, they should provide so

Cloudflare also offers a free unconditional plan, I assume that this is one of the reasons for its greatest popularity. I've been using it for years (free plan) for most of the domains I manage, I have to admit that it made a lot of work easier for me.

Now I am already familiar with this platform and in case I need something more advanced, it will be easier for me to decide on CF than to start with another platform. I'll probably just switch to a paid plan on CF.

[Learn Bitcoin]

Cloudflare also offers a free unconditional plan, I assume that this is one of the reasons for its greatest popularity. I've been using it for years (free plan) for most of the domains I manage, I have to admit that it made a lot of work easier for me.

Now I am already familiar with this platform and in case I need something more advanced, it will be easier for me to decide on CF than to start with another platform. I'll probably just switch to a paid plan on CF.

Currently, I am not in web development sections, I haven't used Cloudflare when I was playing with some web scripts. I never run a professional-grade website, so I never needed CloudFlare. I didn't even know CloudFlare offered free service for that long time. I thought people could use it only for a short period with some limited features.

If a service provide their service like how you described, if I were you, probably I would do the same thing. If I am familiar with a service already and they provide good services too, I would stick with it even if I plan to use a paid version.

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If a service provide their service like how you described, if I were you, probably I would do the same thing. If I am familiar with a service already and they provide good services too, I would stick with it even if I plan to use a paid version.

That is the reason why he gives a free plan, to get users used to his service.
Also, a larger number of domains gives them the possibility of a larger sample, which certainly helps them in the constant improvement of the service.

I was more surprised when I saw that no one else offers a free plan, and it would be helpful to not have the dominance and monopoly of one service.

[SamReomo]

I am fine with SwampLizard using cloudflare as long as there is onion alternative.

I believe that's the most valuable option for the ones who avoid cloudflare for privacy reason. Those who prefer privacy when it comes to mixing often go with onion version of a mixer's site instead of clearnet version. And, it's great that SwampLizad has that Onion option and that's why the ones who worry about Cloudflare tracking should choose onion version for mixing.

[Learn Bitcoin]

That is the reason why he gives a free plan, to get users used to his service.
Also, a larger number of domains gives them the possibility of a larger sample, which certainly helps them in the constant improvement of the service.

Yeah. I guess that is the only reason why most services offer free subscriptions to their customer, so their free customer becomes their permanent customer. If they like the free version, there is more chance they will buy the premium one of the same service if needed. Of course, I know that nothing is free forever, probably we are the product when we use something for free. For example, Free VPN sometimes steals users' information from the device. But, we are talking about a different type of services. So I will stick with that.

I was more surprised when I saw that no one else offers a free plan, and it would be helpful to not have the dominance and monopoly of one service.

Actually I am unaware if any other services are free plans or not. As I said, I am not in web development. But, surprisingly, a single company dominates the market. Interesting.

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@icopress
talkimg has certain problems with functionality. As far as I understand, the server resources are quite loaded and the CEO joker_josue announced a possible limitation of the use of this service for all others except Bitcointalk.
The result is that, for example, the first post in this ANN does not display images. Judging by joker_josue's posts, it seems like you should look for an alternative to Altt.

As a solution, since you already have a website and domain (https://bitlist.co), maybe you could use it to host images for your clients, so you would be completely independent of third parties.

[icopress]

I will re-upload the images as soon as they stop displaying (it seems that the images in post 1 of this thread are currently displaying correctly)

[dkbit98]

talkimg has certain problems with functionality. As far as I understand, the server resources are quite loaded and the CEO joker_josue announced a possible limitation of the use of this service for all others except Bitcointalk.

I think this will get sorted soon after he received donations recently, but I am surprised that Altcoinstalks forum is not showing anything when image is not loading.
There should be some indication that image can't be loaded, but now there is nothing to indicate that.
Good thing that SwampLizard service is not affected with any of this

[NotATether]

As a solution, since you already have a website and domain (https://bitlist.co), maybe you could use it to host images for your clients, so you would be completely independent of third parties.

It is not a good idea to utilize your server resources to load images onto third-party platforms like forums, because that's going to strain the server's capacity and its ability to service the actual web page.

Maybe that's why joker_josue is reluctant to enable it on other sites, but whatever happens, you should not host images locally. Always use an image host. Now I am using PostImages.org for this purpose.

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It is not a good idea to utilize your server resources to load images onto third-party platforms like forums, because that's going to strain the server's capacity and its ability to service the actual web page.

Maybe that's why joker_josue is reluctant to enable it on other sites, but whatever happens, you should not host images locally. Always use an image host. Now I am using PostImages.org for this purpose.

I would not agree unless it is free slow hosting or a very limited package. For example, The Swamplizard ANN thread has 4911 views since it was opened, even if all the openings were in the same hour from different IPs, loading images of 100k size should not even be felt on a stable server. At the same time, those 4,000 views were not all directed to the first page and the first post.

More complicated is the periodic transition to new image hosting, and replacement of existing links. Someone who has opened 100+ ANN threads does not need to waste additional time on such things, even if it happens once every two years, and we are witnessing that it is happening right now. again.

[dkbit98]

It is not a good idea to utilize your server resources to load images onto third-party platforms like forums, because that's going to strain the server's capacity and its ability to service the actual web page.

It's not going to be the problem if he only uploads a few images for some of his topics, but I think TalkImg is working again for now.
I am not sure if he is going to change anything related with AltcoinsTalks forum and keep it strictly for Bitcointalk.
I see that SwampLizard image is hosted on postimages.org.

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I see that SwampLizard image is hosted on postimages.org.

I think that the OP edited the first post and that the image hosting change was primary in the last update

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