On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:09:34 -0500 o1bigtenor via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
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'.
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!