On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:09:34 -0500 o1bigtenor via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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'. > As I am a registrar, have all my own software, etc my needs are: 'bare metal' and quality Internet connectivity (so, cabinets/racks and network incl ddos, in/egress, etc) I used to be a client @ esecuredata.com (Vancouver) for over 15 years but have recently moved everything to Germany (EU) as the quality is a lot higher, new equipment and new hardware schedules, hw maintenance plans, etc.
So, I guess 'web hosting' and hosting in general depends on what you need, as in do you need working email relay and do you need 100TB+ ddos protection and do you need 500 1U servers or 1 x 1U or do you just need 10% of 1x1U - do you have/need your own DNS servers (and how many) as this may also mean that you need 'hosting' on three or four+ different networks and all over the planet. Sometimes I also require my own PIX or other Cisco hw in the same cabinet(s) - some of my clients have 8 or more DNS servers in many different datacenters some use shared dns, etc etc What I have learned in the last 30+ odd years on the Internet is that everyone has different needs and expectations and that there is sometime a huge disparity in what people think they need and what they actually need - and that a lot of $$$ can actually be saved with some planning, but what I have also learned is that I learn new stuff every day and only when you know that you know everything do you realize how much you still need to know :) > > > > 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! --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
