On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:43 AM Alvin Starr via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/29/20 12:19 PM, Don Tai via talk wrote: > > A friend on here uses Planethoster, a Canuck company based in Montreal > > but also have servers in France. He has had good experiences so far, > > but you might need to request English once in a while. Why do you want > > to have a Canuck host provider? This severely limits your choices of > > host provider. I use A2 in Michigan. > > > > The US hosting rules are such that the EU does not allow things like > medical and certain kinds of personal data to reside in the US. > Currently Canada is still considered safe byt the EU. > > Not completely sure how that relates to US companies that have Canadian > centers. > I will admit to being more than somewhat paranoid over bureaucratic oversight and intervention. OUr Canuckistani versions are problematic enough so I'd rather not add even more 'fun'. > > A couple of general rules to go by when hosting your data somewhere. > 1) your data may be monetized without your knowledge. > 2) whoever hosts your data owns your data. > > That's why I'm a little hesitant. At a certain point a website is a reasonable idea (as a business decision). I don't think I really want to run a website out my personal systems along with all the other stuff I have to cover for the business. The day tends to already be far too short! Thanks for the reminder!
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