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That's wicked cool, thank you. For me and a little more experimental customers, this is a nice option but for the more legacy customers out there, if it doesn't have an SLA, it doesn't exist. I know it doesn't make sense but it's how big companies tend to work.
I don’t think Hetzner is the company to provide that. The reason they’re so cheap is that they limit themselves to hardware/VPS.
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Why would it matter at all if it's a minority or majority stake in the ownership of the US subsidiary? As far as I understood it the combination of GDPR and CLOUD act only disallows the combination of US mother-company with EU subsidiary, but the inverse should be fine, since the US has no legal influence over the parent company?
The US-based cloud providers also have European subsidiaries. But that doesn't help because they are bound by US law. That is the root of the problem. What makes you think that a European company operating within US jurisdiction would not be subject to the same laws? If the European company receives a request from the US authorities for information, they need to follow the same legislation as the US companies do. Jus…
But it really depends on how infectious just owning a company is, which I have no idea. But my gut-feeling is that it shouldn't be too infectious, since otherwise just buying a single share of a company operating in another country would put you into legal peril (who controls the subsidiary here is not really relevant, since the Cloud act wants to swim in the opposite direction in your scenario, therefore it shouldn't matter if it's 0.01% or 100%).
When I was moving my server to a new hoster Hetzner was on the top of the list, but they refused me as a customer. As it was going to host (among other things) my mail server, I could not use my primary (self-hosted) email address - because that's asking for trouble if I ever run into issues. It seems using Protonmail triggered something on their side. They asked me for a copy of my ID card, which I happily provided.…
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same for tunisia
Again, I am sorry that we could not accept your accounts. Every day, we also reject a large number of accounts from German and European users if there are red flags. (And unfortunately, there are some real situations that are logical that can lead still to false red flags.) For example, I have an unusual last name, especially for here in Germany, and when I have done personal shopping, I have had a number of online e…
We're a long time Hetzner dedicated server customer currently transitioning from their dedicated servers in Germany to their US Cloud product (for reduced latency) which we can highly recommend as it was the best US Cloud provider we've found that works out to be an order of magnitude less expensive than equivalent specs on Azure/AWS and also includes 20TB free bandwidth that would cost a fortune in AWS/Azure's artif…
First thing on signup: YOU HAVE TO DO ADDITIONAL IDENTITY VALIDATION, yes, even though we took your home address and credit card and phone number already. No thanks, I'll keep using Digital Ocean or someone who doesn't make me jump through hoops.
They have extremely impressive prices, but I've always been hesitant to use them for anything important because they've historically been known for very aggressively shutting down your service if their automated systems detect e.g. suspicious traffic. The most recent and egregious example would be banning users who run cryptocurrency-related nodes, even if not mining, despite only mining and similar activities being…
> They have extremely impressive prices, but I've always been hesitant to use them for anything important because they've historically been known for very aggressively shutting down your service if their automated systems detect e.g. suspicious traffic. I came here to say the same thing. I've had production servers shut down by Hetzner with zero warning. And I believe they also kept the hardware running and continued…
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I would totally understand this on VPS and dedis where the crypto is mining ssd blocks (I think it’s name is Chia). But preventing me from running a normal bitcoin node on my server, which writes 400GB once and is done makes me left confused.
Providing services to the crypto community probably makes you a huge target for cyber attacks and all kinds of fraud. It's the reason I would never get into that business, so I kind of understand why a company would prefer not to allow anything crypto related on their platform.
Shows why you somehow think running a node makes it a target for cyber attack and frauds...
How does running a node make it a target for such? They only relay publicly available information and targeting a single node doesn't really harm the network.
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>I've always been hesitant to use them for anything important because they've historically been known for very aggressively shutting down your service if their automated systems detect e.g. suspicious traffic. FWIW, I've been running a seedbox in Hetzner's Falkenstein datacenter for yrears without issue. I only use private trackers + 1 public tracker focused on asian content, but they're definitely capable of figurin…
Have a couple seedboxes for myself and friends. Sometimes public torrents are used, some of which are monitored. Hetzner just sends a notice about the report and gives you 24 hours to reply without disabling the server. If you miss it then they null route the offending server. Never had any issues with them denying my responses, they're usually very quick to respond to clear the abuse report after submitting. Serious…