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If you setup the server in the EU why would anyone in US have access to it?
This is such a far departure from where I was hoping the Internet would look like growing up. Makes me sad political borders are now viewed as a feature.
It's laughable that a guy from the EU doesn't get it - their freedom of speech is shit.
I don't know how to feel about this. One the one hand this is good for sites that needs to be more global. But I mainly build stuff for Europe and I don't want anything to do with USA when storing personal data. I hope they keep the seperation between Europe and US clear.
If you setup the server in the EU why would anyone in US have access to it?
I don't know how to feel about this. One the one hand this is good for sites that needs to be more global. But I mainly build stuff for Europe and I don't want anything to do with USA when storing personal data. I hope they keep the seperation between Europe and US clear.
> Hetzner's own team of technicians in Germany provides customer support for the Hetzner Cloud servers in both Europe and Ashburn, VA. See below "How do I contact support?" We hope to soon expand the hours for the support team, and we will make an announcement when this happens.
https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/general/locations/#who-provid...
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I think the main thing for GDPR is that US based employees should not have access to manage EU datacenters remotely.
Why would an US employee leak personal data just because they’re in the US? It would be a clear violation of employment and probably criminal.
Any info on what DC they use? So far they've run everything themselves which made them slower to expand but was much cheaper to run. If they now use other DC providers it would explain why they only offer the higher margin cloud servers there. But would be curious if anyone knows where the data center is physically located. With their other ones they're also quite open about it so I was surprised they didn't mention…
NTT/RagingWire VA1. Here's the details about the sea shipment that was sent from Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany to the US subsidiary: https://www.importgenius.com/importers/hetzner-us
So they shipped a 40ft container full of servers via ship to the US? That really surprises me, I always thought this kind of equipment was done via air cargo only.
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Same, have been a happy Hetzner customer for 8+ years because they've consistently offered the best dedicated server pricing with essentially free (20TB) bandwidth. Unfortunately they're only offering their "Cloud" hosting packages for the time being, so it'll be a while before they start offering dedicated servers. Once they offer dedicated servers in US and a managed RDS service I can finally look at moving off AWS…
Yes! And their support is amazing too. Doing business with Hetzner somehow always feels very different to e.g. Amazon, or the other tech giants. I wonder if it may be related to the general business mentality (Germany vs USA), and not only the company size.
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I think the main thing for GDPR is that US based employees should not have access to manage EU datacenters remotely.
Why would an US employee leak personal data just because they’re in the US? It would be a clear violation of employment and probably criminal.
This is huge, 1cpu, 2gb or ram, 20TB of bandwidth on each vm for $3.99.
Naive question: what’s the difference between this and ec2? (I am already running my personal mail and website on an ec2 instance; is there any good reason to switch?)
AWS has a bigger ecosystem of services, and due to AWS's traffic cost you can't cheaply mix-and-match things inside and outside their ecosystem. That's probably the biggest reason to go with EC2.