All the options suck or are crazy expensive or both, but I have a mix of Reolink, Annke (Hikvision rebrand), and Eufy RTSP-capable cameras. I have a PC with Blue Iris NVR on it. The cameras have SD cards as backups.
Nothing goes out to the cloud. The cameras are blocked from the Internet. I have an alert set up and I've never seen the Reolink or Annke units try and reach out.
If you have a lot of money to blow, buy a complete Ubiquiti setup. It is fairly set and forget. I got burned by Ubiquiti with a previous NVR setup and premature obsoletion so I refuse to use their cameras anymore.
MTR is a must have tool for any time you need tracert. I personally have used WinMTR for many years. An invaluable tool when you have connectivity issues to diagnose.
That's interesting, we moved to Cloudflare R2 for our CDN solution, and we got reports from some european government institutions that our assets weren't loading, likely for similar reasons as you mention, so we rolled back whilst looking for options.
The solution was to move to Bunny, and that worked for everyone.
> We've ended up in a world where power users have been forgotten. Not out of malice, but out of a misguided aim to reduce complexity and achieve consistency with the web.
Power users are less susceptible to suggestion and therefore less profitable. They have largely moved to OSes that do not interfere with their wishes, allowing them to make their own choices about what they can or can't do/run (Eg. Linux).
