On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 2:49 AM ac via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Hmmmmmmmmmm - - - - I'm just starting with a on-line hosted website 'stuff'. I'm thinking that maybe that 10% of a 1x1U is going to be plenty. If more is required, based on usage/need, I would expect to be able to scale up the resources (of course for a greater fee - - - - grin!). > > 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 :) > > As part of my 'I don't really know enough' understanding was the asking here of what hopefully wasn't a trivial question. Thanking all the respondents muchly!
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