[GTALUG] web hosting question

[o1bigtenor]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 2:49 AM ac via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

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

Hmmmmmmmmmm - - - - I'm just starting with a on-line hosted website
'stuff'.
I'm thinking that maybe that 10% of a 1x1U is going to be plenty. If more
is
required, based on usage/need, I would expect to be able to scale up the
resources (of course for a greater fee - - - - grin!).

>
> 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 :)
>
> As part of my 'I don't really know enough' understanding was the asking
here of what hopefully wasn't a trivial question.

Thanking all the respondents muchly!
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