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I have already looked through sites like those and have not found viable alternatives.
Because there aren't any.
This is a major issue with today's internet.
It's essential infrastructure for everyone on earth, but most of it depends on a few US corporations.
(Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Cloudflare, Meta)
Yeah, if AWS and Cloudflare alone go down, most people will think the whole internet is gone.
Let's be real - almost the whole internet will be down, then (or at least partially affected in one way or another)
A lot of old forums and personal website won't, but those are dropping off anyway. But yeah, most things whose devs/hosters are keeping up with trends, are using at least either Cloudflare or a major cloud compute provider, often both.
Maybe this is a good "gap in the market" moment then - some global, at least not US-centric, CDN/DDOS-mitigation/edge-compute/WAN/DNS/registry competition to cloudflare's core tech. Maybe the way to increase the odds of success would be to develop an easy-install (integrated, containerised/packaged) FLOSS framework and federated control-protocol for those things with main target-userbase being IXPs around the world (yes, IXPs, not ISPs, which means it would all have to be free and open, and able to be deployed in a way that cost-handling doesn't put the IXPs in an awkward conflict-of-interest position). Importantly there is already a lot of FLOSS code available for much of this, so a large part of the work would be integration, UX, etc. Maybe it would then not need to "compete" with a behemoth like Cloudflare but instead iterate towards making some of it "default internet functionality", sidestepping it being opt-in/paid extras entirely. I know such a simplistic high-level definition sounds woefully naive, but I think starting there and discussing real-world details could lead to something...
Here is the solution what I believe you want;
I appreciate you trying to help, I'm not looking for a dns resolver though.
@MoonRaven @amir_s89 I was looking for a #EU based reverse proxy myself (using #Cloudflare for that), but as of now it seems I have to learn how to self-host such things. Looking at either Nginx or Pangolin.
There seems to be nothing out there that has the ease of use. Of the US solution.
Aw shucks... But on the other hand, it's a learning opportunity...