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Ow his free speech is hurting me! Authorities!

So sendgrid checking does 2.5M emails a month for $90/month, and if call them the Cadillac provider. More than that you have to contact sales, so I’m still wondering how it’s that expensive to them

I agree. I love the fediverse but it is public by design, so anyone can listen. I think matrix is the obvious compliment to that. Many walls and closed doors

The Element X client has been much nicer for people I’ve found, and I’ve been “onboarding” users one by one making sure they get in and they can chat. I agree the verification is an annoying step, and all of the checks, I tell people that’s just getting encryption set up, proving that it’s secure. Once I get them going, they’ve been pretty stable on it.

I use k3s as my base with istio to handle routing, so each node then has the same ports open and istio is the proxy. Internally there’s a load balancer to distribute to whatever pod the traffic needs to go to. Outside the cluster DNS is my only single point of failure but it routes to multiple hosts. I doubt you’d have trouble finding a way to have a DNS that can do that. I don’t think you can get that much more separated from single points

Congrats, you’re officially at the point where you should probably looking at kubernetes. Highly available, failover, and load balancers. It’s a steep learning curve, but if you’re looking for this level of availability you’re probably ready for it