Cloudflare Project Alexandria

[wdhdev]

Hi @indus,

I noticed that JS.ORG uses Cloudflare's free plan (as noted in the README), I think it would be worth for you guys to apply to their Project Alexandria OSS sponsorship program: https://www.cloudflare.com/lp/project-alexandria/

I administer and manage the is-a.dev project, where we applied for a sponsorship, and we got accepted quite easily, which allowed us to get upgraded to their Enterprise plan with an increased DNS record limit and a few other small addons.

I think it could be quite beneficial for JS.ORG to apply. An addon I would recommend applying for is Advanced Certificate Manager as it allows you to proxy 4th-level subdomains (such as blog.william.example.com).

Let me know what you think!

[indus]

@wdhdev again - thanks for sharing this info. I will have to take a closer look.

What could be a problem, however, is the “non-profit” requirement. While the service is free for users, the placement of CarbonAds on the site could be interpreted as “for-profit”. Do you have any experience of how this is considered by Cloudflare?

[MattIPv4]

ACM would be useful to us for sure -- less worried about the DNS record limit, we had that bumped a while ago to some ridiculous value that I don't think we'll hit for a while (and Cloudflare have historically been very happy to bump it for us when we ask).

[MattIPv4]

If you want, I can reach out to some of the folks involved in Alexandria directly to get a better sense of whether the CarbonAds situation would be a blocker?

[wdhdev]

I wouldn't imagine they would deny a sponsorship for Ads via Carbon, as JS.ORG is clearly a non-profit regardless.

If you want, you can ask in the #project-alexandria channel in Cloudflare's Discord server.

[wdhdev]

Hey @indus, just curious, any updates on this? Did you apply?

[indus]

@wdhdev no - not yet. One blocker is that I don't use discord to ask about the non-profit question.
To be honest I'm not really motivated to put any energy in this atm as I don't see any major benefits.

[wdhdev]

I just asked in the Cloudflare Discord server, unfortunately yes, operating on a for-profit basis doesn't let them give you a sponsorship. Sorry for the hassle!