[GTALUG] web hosting question

[David Mason]

I use https://www.ovh.com for hosting, although https://www.canadianwebhosting.com/ looks good, too.

I use https://easydns.com/ for DNS registry and DNS hosting.

I’m very happy with both easydns and ovh!

../Dave
On Jul 29, 2020, 1:10 PM -0400, o1bigtenor via talk <talk at gtalug.org>, wrote:
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> > 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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