On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:43 AM Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> 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!