[GTALUG] web hosting question

[o1bigtenor]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:43 AM Alvin Starr via talk <talk at 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!
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