Self-hosted GeoDNS is working out well.
Randomized location ping to 0.grapheneos.org (North America):
nodeping.com/reports/summar
Randomized location ping to grapheneos.org:
nodeping.com/reports/summar
It's largely from NA/EU locations which matches our userbase.
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Western Canada/US location would help a lot but we don't really want to use another provider for it and OVH has their US locations in a separate US entity. Pretty much counts as a separate provider since it'd be a separate account. Too bad they don't have a Vancouver DC...
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It would be nice to have anycast but we'd want to be using it via something like buyvm.net/anycast-vps/ and that doesn't have enough locations + there aren't really other options. We want to have self-hosted services and it's important for it to be unmetered too.
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Metered services are pretty much throwing away all resistance to DoS / DDoS because someone could easily bankrupt us or force us to take down the services based on cost. Part of why OVH is such a good provider for us: dedicated servers, traditional VPS, cloud VPS are unmetered.
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At least for the North America and Europe locations. Their Singapore / Sydney locations have soft caps unless you pay massive amounts for the unmetered bandwidth. That's why we have website servers in Quebec/France/Singapore but update servers only in Quebec/France/Germany.