[GTALUG] web hosting question

[Alvin Starr]

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.

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.



> I always split domain name and hosting because there was a time when 
> host providers could hold your name ransom if you wanted to leave. I 
> think most host providers split out their domain name part to an 
> external company/different sub-company, but I don't want any surprises.
>
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