we rely on some external services to support core infrastructure and operations. here's where those are documented. in bullet points below each items are further details and thoughts
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dns - hurricane electric
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we could definitely self-host and probably should
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domain registrar - namecheap
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this is inescapable. only option is to bikeshed about least-bad providers
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image hosting - archive.org
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we could self-host, with constraints. we would need to do network bandwidth math. how do you run a CDN?
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uptime monitoring - updown.io
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it's good to use a separate provider for uptime monitoring. we could of course self-host but with increased risk of failure
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is there a more politically aligned uptime monitoring provider?
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do we know that updown isn't?
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password management - 1password
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we could self host bitwarden but makes me nervous
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1password currently just a personal account, not easily shareable
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email - fastmail
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used for both human email and SMTP relay
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send limit is 8000 emails/day
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ISP - at&t
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genuinely inescapable
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only discussion-worthy thing is if we want to stop using their router, which we certainly do eventually
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